Curt boldly confronts the monstrous Thomas Harvey about his sex trade operation and learns more than he bargained for!
Curt’s taxi pulled up to the guard shack of the gated community at ten am, and was allowed immediate access.
“Mr. Harvey has been expecting you,” said the no nonsense, guard. There are four lanes, take the one to the far right.”
The taxi driver did as he was told, arriving in front of the massive mansion with a rigid butler who opened the car door and paid the cab driver.
“Right this way, Sir…” Leading him to a golf cart that transported him across the manicured lawns. Within moments, the blur of a distant form was revealed as Thomas Harvey. It was a wonder that the eighty-two year old could lift the club, let alone, swing. The yellow sweater clad, gentleman handed the club to his Asian caddy and then turned to face him. He was tall with perfect posture and had no problem confronting him with piercing blue eyes, creased by crow’s feet.
“Hello, Mr. Castillo.”
“No one’s called me by that name since college.”
“To what do I owe the pleasure, Mr. Castillo?”
“You tell me? You’re the one who lured me here.”
“Nonsense! I’ve heard you were investigating some areas where I may have a common interest. It’s only natural that you would show up here. I have lunch set up in the gazebo-Join me?”
“Sure. Lead the way.”
As the waiter began serving their meal, Curt wasted no time cutting through the chase. “Mr. Harvey, please tell me, why on earth a man of your means would steal children from their beds and carry them thousands of miles away from home to be raped by pedophiles?”
Sipping from his wine glass and savoring the flavor for a moment- “Because there was a demand for American children; specifically blond haired, blue-eyed children. Try your wine, while the temperature is still complimentary to the body…”
“A demand- For American children?”
“Yes. A demand,” he said calmly. “About forty years ago, give or take, there was a demand for Puerto Ricans. At that time we simply gave the parents a couple of hundred dollars, explaining that their children would have a much better life in our care. …And, it was true . Those children were very well taken care of- and loved, in a very special way…”
Curt had to stand up and walk a few yards away.
“What are you talking about?!”
“Your grandparents aren’t dead, Curtis, like your mom told you. They are alive and well in an impoverished village in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We purchased your mother from them for your father, Judge Mason…
Kind of a gift to your father for being so helpful to the organization”
Watching the shades of horror and disgust on Curt’s face evolve with each revolting word, Thomas continued. “He was so taken with Eloisa’s exotic beauty at just five years old, we set the adoption up and he had his little girl. At thirteen, she gave birth to you, and Thomas did whatever she wanted to keep her happy. That’s how you lived your privileged life. But as years went on, she aged, and at sixteen she was just too old for him. So we used her to persuade the parents, in that village to give their children a better life as well. It worked out well, until the demand changed.
Now, your mother just couldn’t let things be and insisted on blowing the whistle if Thomas didn’t stop giving little girls and boys a good home. This went on for years. He tried reasoning with her and she went on and on about having hidden letters, photos, and proof, until we just had to burn the house down to get rid of that sort of thing. We own the police, so no one questioned the fire or her death. You went off to college- a little sad, but you did ok.”
The old man continued to drink his wine as Curt sank to the ground vomiting and grieving with silent, open mouthed cries. He couldn’t catch his breath, even when the golf cart returned to pick them up.
“Will you be joining us, Mr. Castillo?” There was no answer. “No, I suppose not. You take your time and pull yourself together. Peter will see you back to the airport. And if I were you, I’d think about my poor old grandma and grandpa in Puerto Rico. So far they’ve been doing well, living off of our condolences. So don’t tip the apple cart son.”
With those words the golf cart rode away, carrying Satan back to hell.
Curt got back on a plane, but he wasn’t headed to Chicago. He was headed to Texas to dig up the evidence his mother had planted for him.
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