But it seemed he didn't get what I had said as he scoffed. “Do you even know what the black market is like? Once something’s sold there, you think you can just buy it back? Your mother’s body has probably been chopped into pieces by now. There’s no getting her back. So, just take the money and stop causing trouble.”
She wasn’t my biological mother, but she was still a human being. She’d been killed without reason, branded a scammer, and now her body had been sold off by her own son.
The thought of her fate made my chest ache.
“Caleb,” I said quietly, “since you know exactly how bodies are treated on the black market, how could you still do that to Mom? Doesn’t it bother you at all?”
He gave a mocking smile. “Why would it? She’s your mom, not mine. And besides, the dead don’t feel pain. Selling her body for cash at least gave her some worth. She should’ve watched where she was going. Getting killed was bad enough, but she also traumatized Brielle for days.”
I stared at him, speechless. For a moment, I couldn’t even imagine how he’d react if he found out that the woman sold to the black market was actually his own mother.