CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
BRAD
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To: Undisclosed recipient
From:[email protected]
Subject: TeddyBear order #2357
Funds received.
The goods will be available at the agreed and previously advised pickup position at fifteen forty-five on Friday.
Cannot confirm one or two parcels.
Regards
TB
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Get it?
TB - Teddy Bear.
BT - Brad Thornton.
I thought it was clever.Writing in code is a pain in the ass sometimes, but technically I’m only delivering a handful a year so don’t have to do it often.This one is close timewise, which is a bit of a risk, but the opportunity was too good to overlook.Trinity is a full checklist of all the things I know my other customers want.
I received top dollar.
And those dollars are big—too big to ignore.
Do I do this for the money?Yes.But I’ve been a wealthy man for a long time.I’m set up for life and won’t ever starve or worry about having a roof over my head.Or how to pay for the latest Lexus or Range Rover.
So that’s not why I do it—not really.
There’s danger and excitement in this world, a thrill I don’t get from anything else in life.
I love my wife and kids, I’m proud of the dental business, but none of those things set off the thrilling spark that I’m enjoying right now.
It’s a dopamine hit laced with heroin.
That’s how I imagine it.
Staring into people’s mouths and talking to teenagers and mothers every day.Jesus.Yes, it’s made me money, but if I could legally shoot some of them, I would.They irritate the fuck out of me.
They are pathetic, average and boring people.
And that’s what started this.I realized I was bored with my life.
Not challenged.
Not stimulated.
Not living on the edge.
