Chapter 26

The confiscation of the tanker pissed certain people off; People who usually get their wishes ... people who don’t understand that teen girls don’t want to be non-consenting sex slaves. I WANT it ... make it happen ... those kind of people.

There’s another kind of ‘those’ people. “What ever happens It’s not my fault.” They tend towards violence and retribution. “If it’s not my fault it must be yours.” If they have money they can pay to ‘fix’ it.

The man was looking at a snapshot photo album of girls taken unawares. There were a great many numbered photos and a goodly number of pages. To him it was like shopping in a candy store for Christmas goodies. Talking to himself he would peruse a page, “No”. “Maybe.” “Number 26,” and make a note or fold a corner. When he reached the end of the snapshots he turned the page and started looking at the expanded set. “Hmmm ... Number 26.” The numbered photos were not what the back pages showed ... no ... these were nudes taken in the gym shower, hidden camera shots of sunbathers at a private pool. He had a list or many folded pages. He may limit his choices or go whole hog and list them all. He was paying half a million each not knowing that the capture was done by men who charged 10 grand each.

Alice was Number 26.

Our user was highly perturbed by the failure and loss of the ship ... the girls were cheap ... the ship cost real money. True ... he was a billionaire but a billion dollar seizure was a personal affront. And THAT required recompense.

So ... ya know that mid Pacific Ocean ‘landfill?’ Oodles and oodles of floating junk? A couple of Coast Guard coastal patrol boats went missing ... the crew of one didn’t have a thing to do with the tanker ... the other had been asshole deep in the operation. Several years later both boats ... Atlantic Coast patrol mind you ... were found just below the surface and popped up when that new cleaning ship ... the one trying to clean up the fill ... National Geographic had a special on it ... Both boats surfaced when the trash holding them under was vacuumed ... or how ever the cleanup works ... A couple more years and the bodies would have completly deteriorated and the boats would have sunk ... but ... they didn’t.