Headshot_CIA Assassin by Rawlin Cash

Author:Rawlin Cash [Cash, Rawlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rawlin Cash
Published: 2019-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Three

Back in the bar, the music had switched over from salsa to hip hop. The place was really packed now and was becoming more like a nightclub than a strip bar. Guys were there with their girlfriends. The strippers were still dancing but they were more like background entertainment.

“Is there any man here who’s going to get jealous if you go across the way with me?” Hunter said to Adelita.

He led her to the bar and got his bill from the waitress. He paid her with a hundred and looked back at Adelita. She hadn’t answered.

He wasn’t supposed to care about collateral damage. There was no amount of pain or destruction he could cause that wouldn’t be justified given his objective. He also knew that whatever he did would pale in comparison to the damage the air strikes would cause.

But there was something about the girl. She was young. She acted tough, like she knew the ropes, but he could sense the vulnerability beneath the surface. It wouldn’t have sat well with him if he caused her trouble.

“Of course not,” she said. “I’d be in the wrong business if there was a guy like that.”

Hunter nodded. “You tell me if there is, because I know things can get complicated.”

“No one cares about me here,” she said. “There’s a hundred other girls just like me.”

“You’re not going to get in trouble for leaving the club?”

She hesitated. “Let me tell my boss where I’m going.”

“He’s going to ask how much you’re getting paid.”

“I’ll tell him fifty.”

“Is that what you usually charge?”

“I usually don’t go across to the motel.”

Hunter nodded. He looked over at the cartel guys. The men in suits were eyeing him. He nodded at them and they looked away.

They were sizing him up. They didn’t know who he was. They didn’t know what he wanted. They’d know soon enough when they looked up the files for Jack Morrow.

Adelita came back and he took her through the bar by the hand. At the door the bouncer asked Adelita where she was going and she told him she’d already cleared it with the boss.

Adelita was tall and thin, taller still in her six-inch heels. She walked across the parking lot like a gazelle, carefully placing each step.

Hunter admired her in the streetlight. She was like something from another world. A more innocent world. The big mistake she’d made was to be born in a place like this.

“I smell fire,” she said.

Hunter nodded. On the horizon he could see the glow of fire. The air strikes had started.

“Hay una guerra,” she said.

“Siempre hay guerra,” Hunter said.

She nodded. The one constant in the world was war.

The moon above them was full and clear.

Hunter unlocked the motel room and they stepped inside. He switched on the light. Adelita sat down on the bed and looked up at him. She hadn’t done this often. She wasn’t sure how to proceed.

“How old are you?” Hunter said.

“Veintiuno.”

“Verdad?”

She shrugged. “You don’t really care what age I am, do you?”

Hunter pulled back a curtain and peered across the lot.

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