a young woman—unidentified—was brought into the facility and impregnated with Wilkey’s sperm.”
“Okay.” Eve began to pace. “That follows. That’s a pattern I see coming.”
“The OB nurse was assigned to tend to her. She was kept isolated. She was basically in prison, Dallas. She wasn’t there willingly, wasn’t pregnant willingly. The OB nurse assisted in the birth. They took the baby, and she never saw the bio mother again.”
“But she saw others.”
“Right, you’ve got it.”
Eve paused by the conference room door, where she could see the board. “Yeah,” she said. “I’ve got it. Keep going.”
“Some, impregnated like this one, others who’d been shipped in, married off—against their will—who either came in for the birth, or the nurse assisted Huffman in home deliveries. The nurse was a member at the time, was given a bonus of a thousand for every successful birth.”
Money, Eve thought, it always wound back to the money.
“Dallas, male members paid Natural Order upwards of twenty grand—at that time—for a woman between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four, of their specific race.”
The outrage in Nadine’s voice began to rise, and Eve resumed pacing.
“Healthy women who passed medical and mental screenings. These members were awarded five grand for every successful birth. Money was paid out to whoever shipped these women in, most of them unwilling or unknowing, where they were trained—and you can read that tortured—to live by the rules, were married, whether they wanted to be or not, by Wilkey, then given to some asshole whose job it was to plant his fucking seed in her so he could get his bonus and propagate the damn world.”
“You’ve got the OB nurse? She’ll attest to this?”
“She’s dead. Killed herself about ten years ago. I’ve got her sister—and I’m not giving you her name at this time.”
“For fuck’s sake, Nadine—”
“I gave my word, Dallas, so just hear me out.”
Though she cursed inside, Eve nodded. “Keep going.”
“The nurse got documents to the sister, begged forgiveness, begged her sister not to expose this until her own children were of age. The nurse got the children out, sent them to her sister along with the documents, then hanged herself.”
“I need those documents.”
“My source is willing to let me turn them over and break this, as long as I keep details, any details that will lead to her and the kids, out of it. She changed her name, and theirs, moved out of the country. But I found her, so they could find her. She’s afraid for them, and I don’t blame her.”
Nadine held up a finger, then took a long sip from a water glass.
“This is human trafficking, Dallas, enforced slavery, turning women into breeding droids. I can’t begin.”
“I know what it is, and we’re going to take them down. All the way down. Get me the documents.”
“I don’t want to send them electronically. It’s going to take me at least another hour to get to you, but I’m coming to you first. And now, I don’t care what the hell time it is, I’m having a serious drink.”
“You did good, Nadine. Think of that.”
“Working on it.”
Eve settled herself, then stepped back in. Peabody was winding it up, so she let her finish.
“We’ve got these bastards,” Baxter muttered. “We’ve got Wilkey and his lunatic faithful up, down, sideways.”
“We just got more. Nadine Furst has uncovered a source, with documentation, that exposes a decades-long system of abductions, human trafficking, enforced slavery, rape, enforced impregnation.”
“A reporter?” Conroy surged to his feet. “We can’t have a reporter in this.”
“Nadine Furst’s integrity is unquestionable,” Eve shot back. “If it was only about the story, she’d be on her way to her studio to break it instead of here to turn over that documentation. She wouldn’t have contacted me to relay the information, she’d have broken it on air.”
“If she leaks any of this before—”
“She won’t. It’s just that simple.”
Turning away, Eve dismissed him.
“Dr. Paula Huffman performed a hysterectomy on Rachel Wilkey three years before the birth of Aaron Wilkey. Subsequently, Huffman impregnated an unidentified woman, against her will, with Wilkey’s sperm. Nadine will be bringing in documentation from a medical who assisted in these procedures, and in others. Others like Gina Mancini, who were kept in the compound against their will, tortured, forced into bogus marriages, and raped and impregnated.
“There will be other facilities like this, and the island is certainly used for this. People like Po are paid to provide the healthy women, the medicals are paid a bonus for live, healthy births. The men pay for