Narcos_The Jaguar's Claw by Jeff Mariotte

Author:Jeff Mariotte [Mariotte, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07CWH15NX
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 2018-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

21

“THAT WAS GOOD, Jaguar, what you did last night,” Snake-eyes said. “Fast thinking.”

“Thanks.”

A steady rain was falling, and they were huddled in the guard shack at the estate’s front gate. They should have been walking the perimeter, but neither one wanted to.

“How did you know to do that?”

“I guess it’s from my police training. They teach you to take command of any situation. Assess it, make decisions, and carry them out. That’s what I did.”

“I just about shit when you started ordering Pablo around.”

Aguilar laughed. “I did too, when I realized what I’d done. By then it was too late, so I just went with it. I’m glad it all turned out okay.”

“How young do you think is too young for him?”

“What do you mean? For Don Pablo?”

“Tata’s eleven years younger.”

“That’s not so bad. My mother is fifteen years younger than my father.”

“But how old was she when they married?”

“Twenty-two, I think.”

“I’m not sure how old Tata was, but young. Fifteen, maybe.”

Aguilar shrugged. “If her parents approved…”

“I guess they must have. When we go out sometimes, for prostitutes, he always picks the youngest they have. Me, I like a woman with some meat on her, and some experience.”

“You go for prostitutes with Don Pablo?”

“Sometimes. You will, too, one of these days. He likes to take some of the guys, pay for them. It makes him feel generous, I think, and he believes it makes us feel indebted to him.”

Aguilar wasn’t sure how he would feel about that. He had hardly thought about women or sex since Luisa’s death. He’d always supposed a time would come when he would be interested in it again, but for now, he couldn’t separate it from his loss. Luisa haunted his dreams, and sometimes he thought he saw her on the street. Being with anyone else would feel like a betrayal.

He saw Montoya, too, in nightmares. Saw the fear in his former friend’s eyes, the pain racking his face as Aguilar cut him, the blood pooling on the floor. It was rare for a night to go by without those memories floating to the surface at least once. He tried to chase them away with thoughts of Luisa, but that was only sometimes effective.

“I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it,” Snake-eyes clarified. “Just, you know, he got so upset with that guy last night, and Adriana is nine. I was curious as to what’s too young for him, and what’s just right.”

“We’ll probably never know,” Aguilar said. “And that’s as it should be.”

“You’re probably right. I’m glad he did what he did. People who prey on children like that—they should all have their balls shot off. Even that might be too good for them.”

“Yeah,” Aguilar agreed. “It’s wrong, for sure.”

“It messes a kid up,” Snake-eyes said. “Makes him distrustful. Mean.”

“Him?”

“It happens to boys, too, you know.” His expression was curious, somewhere between bemused and sad, and he gestured toward himself in a way that Aguilar wasn’t sure how to interpret.

“You?” he asked.

Snake-eyes shrugged. “I’m not ashamed of it.

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