Chapter 15

Our engagement announcement made a lot of papers, thanks in part to Chelsea and in part because of our fame. We received a lot of congratulatory notes and calls. We also received some notes that disturbed us. J.J. Callen sent Sissy a long, impassioned email about how he knew she was his soulmate and she was making a huge mistake, asking if I was holding her against her will and offering to come and rescue her. It was really creepy to read. She saved it, forwarding it to her publishing house and consulted the local police.

They seemed to think nothing would come of it but reached out and had his local department pay him a courtesy call, asking him to cease and desist any means of contact with her. He ignored their advice and sent her several more strident messages, resulting in another visit. The locals told him one more instance of contact and he would be arrested for cyberstalking. Sissy didn’t give him another opportunity, changing her Facebook and email accounts.

At some point he hooked up with Roderick, who was hoping to represent him somewhere down the line. Their first joint effort was a virtual attack, spreading rumors about my behavior while traveling. It was one thing to mess with my reputation. It was an entirely different matter to do it with the reputations of the ultra-rich. One was a computer guru and he put his whole company, all 190 of them, on to nothing but deciphering the code and finding who was sending the emails.