“You did the finding. Tell her.”
She smiled, and did just that.
“Well, at first, I had a difficult time finding anything, but that was because Alexi Redmond uses his mother’s maiden name. It seems that his mother, Susette, and his father, Gregory, got a divorce when the older man got into trouble.”
She lifted a brow.
“What kind of trouble are we talking about?” she asked, curiously.
MATE was to the point.
“He was arrested for black-market sale of organs, and he lost his medical license.”
They all stared at each other.
“WHAT?”she asked.
MATE explained.
“He was found guilty of seventy counts of organ theft and sentenced to jail time for harvesting and selling organs. He made almost half a billion dollars doing it too.”
Well, shit.
“And we have a body found in the same building where the skulls and eyes were found, who also lost a kidney?” she asked. “That’s a weird coincidence.”
If it was a coincidence.
Now, another path was opening up.
Callen began searching. It didn’t take him long, either to find something.
“We have the hospital records for Jonathan Miller from Alex. He sent them over to us. The dead soldier lost his kidney a few years ago. Alexi’s father went into prison around the same time. No one else was found guilty, but you know that a doctor wasn’t doing all the dirty work. Normally with organ rings, there are the ones who abduct, and ones who do the removal. So…”
Well, shit.
Gene knew what that meant.
“Our partner, your husband, wants to hire the son of an organ-stealing felon to work for the FBI—and who is now helping on a case where one of his father’s past victims might have just turned up dead. Talk about muddying the water.”
Oh, boy.
Chris wasNOTgoing to like hearing that his almost-perfect ME was actually hiding some skeletons in his closet. He was also not going to like that Alexi couldn’t touch this case witha ten-foot pole, even if the sins of the father were not the sins of the son.
Defense attorneys used the slightest thing to sway a jury, and this was right up their skeezy alley.
“Do you think that he could be behind this?” Callen asked, hoping that wasn’t the case. “Because that’s one hell of a weird thing to connect to, especially since we have a victim who lost a kidney in the same way. In our world, coincidences like that…”
Yeah, tell her about it.
She wasn’t sure if this was tied to the case, but they needed to handle that.
“He can’t work with us,” she admitted. “Not on this case. If this gets discovered in court…”
Someone’s head was going to roll.
Hers.
“We’ll tell him tomorrow. Right now, Alexi isn’t there. Chris said he left hours ago. Callen, text Saint and tell him to keep an eye on Chris, but don’t go into detail. I want to break it to him personally, and give him a heads-up. He’s had his heart on this ME since he saw him.”
