The Body Thief by Chris Taylor

Author:Chris Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romantic suspense, crime fiction, contemporary romance, romance series, australian romance, thrillers and suspense
Publisher: Chris Taylor

CHAPTER TEN

Dear Diary,

It seemed like such a good idea, a win for everyone. Now, I’m not so sure. The pressure to supply more and more tissue is consuming me. I was under the impression Biologistics was in this business for much the same reasons I was: to increase the supply and availability of viable human tissue and give a greater number of people a better chance at life.

But it seems I’ve been led astray, or perhaps I just didn’t want to see. For Biologistics, it’s all about quotas and money and I am powerless against their contagious greed.

With no government restrictions, Charles Shillingworth and his company are free to take whatever they can get. The quotas get higher and higher. Where will it all end?

And then I look at the money in my account and I just want more and more. The truth is, I’m as bad as Charles Shillingworth. The money and the promise of more has corrupted my soul.

I’ve cleared Richard’s gambling debts and paid off the next year’s school fees in advance. The money is everything I thought it would be, but I’m frightened of its hold. Of their hold.

I’ve stepped into a yawning abyss and I have no way to get out. God, help me! What have I done?

* * *

“What the hell do you mean, you need more money? I already told you I’m cutting back on my activities,” Alistair growled at Richard, already regretting his decision to meet with the deputy coroner after the man left a message on Alistair’s cell phone. It had been filled with desperation and none-too-subtle threats.

They sat, hidden in a booth in the back of yet another secluded bar in the city. Alistair clenched his jaw in an effort to keep his anger in check. Over the past few months, he’d not only cleared Richard’s sixty-thousand-dollar gambling debt, but he’d given the deputy coroner a fifteen percent cut of the earnings he received from Biologistics.

Even before Alistair decided to reduce his extracurricular undertakings, only a small percentage of the tissues he delivered overseas came from bodies that passed through the Glebe Morgue. He’d been willing to give his friend a respectable share of the booty in return for his cooperation and silence, but he was damned if he’d increase the percentage or be intimidated by the man’s threats.

“I did some research on the Internet,” Richard said in a whining tone that grated on Alistair’s ears. “The supply of human tissue is big business overseas. There are companies in the US who pay a fortune for that kind of thing. I’ve done a few sums. All I’m saying is that fifteen percent isn’t enough.”

“You stupid idiot! Do you have any idea the risk involved in doing what I’m doing? If I get caught, I’m facing serious jail time, not to mention the end of my career. You’re the one who begged me to keep going, cried on my shoulder about how you couldn’t afford for me to stop. Now you’re sitting back, keeping your hands clean and raking in the cash.

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