about everything. and, we can share those with each other, okay? i love you. take care. by. during their heart to hearts, rachel complained that her todd was not so perfect as people seem to think. did she lay it on a little thick for the sake of her other man? wouldn t be surprised here? mainly, james related to us would she told him that todd was stingy, emotionally distant. that he was so devious he actually face having cancer twice to avoid deadlines at work. then on a business trip to amsterdam he feigned some sort of catatonic state the day he had a presentation and worse, as james related to us, todd talked about staging a car wreck as a pretext for suing his own company and collecting a big settlement. now, all this may have just been trash talk about the
14 years this went on, rachael wanted to get married, have kids. i didn t ask her to marry me yet. did you want to have kids? i did, i did, but i wasn t there yet, do you know what i m saying? well, an old story, isn t it? tim was blindsided by what s happened next. rachael met another man, someone who was everything tim was not. todd wynne color, focused, disciplined, a former fighter pilot was on track to be a corporate leader, tim scrambled. we and i went and bought a ring real quick to propose to her and i did. it was too late by then, of course. rachel turned him down and announced her engagement to todd. it was really hard. you know? the love of my life was leaving me for some guy that had a good job, a house, a boat, a nice car. tim, to me, was rachel s
the ex fighter pilot and pharmaceutical executive, her husband. her lover, the handyman former marine and firearms expert. and her first boyfriend, the would-be impressionist painter, his name is tim. and she, the woman of the center of all of it was rachel, rachel hadfield. so, rachel, tell me about her. i m sorry. jess whatever. i ll start again. what did that do to you and i said that? my heart made a sound. the subject of rachel is painful for tim, the pain that might lessen if he could learn to forget, all he can do is remember. like the night they first met. it was a july night, a party, she was dancing and i said wow i have to meet that girl. how old were you?
his wife, angry and betrayed, made phone call to todd, who begged rachel ended with james, she in a rush of guilt and shame agreed. he tried to call it off, and we couldn t stay apart from each other for more than two days, we were crazy for each other. how would you call it off? what would you do? she said i need to work it out with my husband, and i said i need to work out with my wife, we can talk to each other, two days later she would text me, she would say i love you and i miss you. i said i love you and i miss you too. we had a strong spiritual bond. but then all love sick they would sneak off and see each other, leave longing messages to the phone like this one from rachel. one of the great things when you re in love with somebody is that those feelings come to the surface more. your feelings about work, about your heart, about your spirit,
i was in my yard and saw the sheriff s department pulling into the neighbors next door house. and taking tactical positions. donning flat jackets, and pulling ar-15s. there were five sheriffs in the backyards with their guns drawn, facing todd s house. what happened next, floored marianne calk low. and i saw todd walking backwards across the street. stop right there, turn around! put your hands on top your head! drop down to your knees. yay keep your hands on top your head, do you understand me? there s no one else inside the house. where is your wife? you said nobody else is inside. though my wife is dead. how could it be? rachel was just 37 years old. with those three year little children to whom she meant the whole world. where is your wife? she isn t, when you enter the house and turn to the right. the first bedroom on your