Luxe by Ashley Antoinette

Author:Ashley Antoinette
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781466874886
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-09-08T05:00:00+00:00

15

Bleu sat in the bus terminal, her eyes dancing around the room as she made a mental note of everything around her. She didn’t know why no one had figured it out before her. Cinco had girls going across the border with ten bricks, fifteen at the most, when he could have had each girl carrying ten times that much. When Bleu had retrieved the luggage from the first run she had noticed how unsecure the bus station was. There was no security checkpoint, no checking of the bags. They hadn’t even checked her I.D. when she had picked up her luggage from lost and found. It was literally a smuggler’s dream. She wasn’t foolish enough to move anything without testing it first, so as she sat with her bus ticket to Tijuana in her hand she observed everything.

“Bus Eleven-Twenty-Eight now loading for Tijuana. All passengers please make your way to gate seven,” the voice came over the loudspeaker, and Bleu jumped to her feet and grabbed her bag. That was the one perk about bus travel. She carried her own belongings all the way to the door of the bus. It wasn’t until she was ready to board did a carrier take it from her. She watched intently as they put her bag under the bus. They don’t scan it or nothing, she thought in amazement. There were no dogs, no X-ray machines … nothing. Bleu could practically see the profit she was about to make. She had gotten twenty thousand for a light run. With the type of weight she was planning to move she would see a hundred grand easy for every trip she took. She took a deep breath as she took a window seat. The thought of so much money gave her anxiety as she leaned her head back against the headrest. Champagne dreams filled her mind as the bus rolled away from the station.

Tijuana and its dirty streets, its run-down buildings, and its corrupt government intimidated Bleu, and as she stepped off of the bus she started to second-guess herself. At least when she had come with Aysha and China she had them to back her up. Now that she was solo she felt like a sitting duck. She was trying to play a big boy’s game, but she was vulnerable … she could feel it, and her senses were kicked into overdrive. She didn’t want her name to be flagged by customs, so she knew that she had to at least spend one night in Tijuana. She hadn’t thought of what she would do to occupy her time, and now that she was here she knew this couldn’t be a dry run. Fuck a test trip. She had seen all she had needed to see to know that she was coming back across the border with bricks. Why waste the opportunity? she thought.

She walked with her duffel bag slung over her arm as she made her way up the desolate street. She had no idea how to get in contact with Cinco, but she was here now.

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