Free Sacred Flesh by Timothy Cavinder

He’s involved somehow? But that can’t be he’s just a history professor. I’ve known Glenn for seven years. I’ve been golfing with him and sailing on his boat. He’s not into weird stuff like this or is he? Damn! Jim puts the envelope back on the desk and hurries out of the office: got to get out of here. Taking the stairs he flies down the three fights and out into the parking lot as the sun hits him in the face his eyes take a moment to adjust. He reaches in his pocket for his keys as his cell phone goes off.
    “Hello?”
    “Jim its Joey, I think we should talk. I need to come over.”
    “Did you find out anything more?” Jim asks.
    “We really need to talk Jim,” Joey says bluntly.

CHAPTER 33

 
 
    “How the hell did you find me here?” He asks while sitting on the bench.
    “Never mind how, you got a minute?” Jill says while quickly sitting down next to him and brushing aside her long brown hair.
    “Does it matter if I do or not?” he asks.
    “No, not really,” she answers.
    “So what do you want with me?”
    “You may be in danger. The Elite have vacated their headquarters. We raided it last night, nothings left. We’re not certain where they’ve gone either they’ve broken ranks and scattered or they’ve set up operations elsewhere. We had them in our crosshairs and now they’ve slipped away.”
    “They have that tendency. They can be very elusive if they want to be. Their whole gig is underground to begin with,” he says.
    “The micro biology professor Jim Dunbar; he’s in contact with them right? You can get a hold of him, that’s what you were sent here to do correct?” She asks.
    “Yes, I spoke with him three days ago. But I don’t think he believes me. He just doesn’t understand the danger.”
    “We need to talk to Mr. Dunbar as soon as possible,” she says.
    “Why are you asking me? Surely you guys know where he lives. You know where he works at the university. Just make an appointment and go to his office,” he says.
    “Well, you see the thing is he isn’t at any of those locations and no one’s seen or heard from him for awhile.”
    “Really?”
    “So now the Elite and Jim Dunbar are both missing at the same time, not real good.” She looks at him coldly.

CHAPTER 34

 
 
    “What the hell are you talking about?” Jim says with a touch of anger in his voice while sitting at the desk in the hotel room he recently booked to get away, lay low and think things through.
    “Just what I said, listen I’m sorry Jim. I didn’t mean to lie to you but I didn’t know what else to do you got to understand these guys aren’t screwing around. They gave me $50,000 just to tell you that there was nothing wrong with them. What was I suppose to do, not take the money? Tell them no? If they can afford fifty grand for just a little thing like that I’m sure they are capable of a lot of really bad stuff. I’m not real fond of waking up dead, maybe we should go to the police I don’t know,” he says nervously.
    “Why are you telling me this now?” Jim asks.
    “I don’t know. It’s been eating at me. These guys are nothing to mess with Jim. They gave me fifty grand in cash just to feed you some bull. It makes me believe they’re willing to go much further to get anything they want.”
    “Yeah, I’m getting that feeling too. They left a strange message on my voice mail. I wasn’t supposed to meet with them until Thursday, today’s Monday and they want the second sample result back as soon as possible. They sound desperate. They’ve always been so cool and relaxed, very smooth. But now I get the feeling like: come on hurry up let’s go.”
    “Doesn’t sound good,” Joey says.
    “What did they tell you exactly?” Jim asks.
    “They said they had some pieces of old human flesh and they needed DNA testing done. You were the perfect candidate for them. Everything had to be done in secret because there were others who wanted to get their hands on the samples