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I think his eyes just faintly sh the mirror Yes, I’m positive that’s what I saw He knows as well as I do that I’ let out of the car and on my own

"You will need un"

"So then give rier "And this isn’t the only gun I have"

That seeh suard I hit over the head when I got past the fence"

He nods once, so subtly that if I would’ve blinked in that ood start," he says and then puts his eyes back on the dirt road for a moment and turns left at the end "But ill you do when you run out? Because you will"

I hate him

"Then I’ll run"

"And they will catch you"

"Then I’ll stab them"

Suddenly, the American veers slowly off the road and stops the car

No, no, no! This isn’t hoas supposed to happen I expected hi because he knew if he left me out here all alone like this that whatever happened to uess he doesn’t have h the mirror, not a trace of compassion or concern in them I want to shoot him in the back of the head on principle He just stares at -for? look and I don’t budge I glance carefully at the door and then back at hiain

"You can use e," I say because it’s all I have left

His eyebrows barely otten his attention

"I’irls"

"What e?" he asks

"Well, did Javier pay you the whole three and a half million?"

"That is not hoorks," he says

"No, but I kno Javier works and if he didn’t give you the full a to get out?"

I sigh heavily and glance out theagain and then I raise the gun back up and say, "You’re going to drive me to the border"

The American licks the dryness fro everything by ear now All of the planned parts of ot inside this car

When the American spoke of the United States border, it came off to me as if I am closer to the borders of other countries than the US and this terrifies me If I’m closer to Guatemala or Belize than the United States then I very much doubt that I will make it out of this alive I have looked at maps I have sat within that rooer over the little roads between Zamora and San Luis Potosí and between Los Mochis and Ciudad Juárez But I always blocked the possibility of being farther south completely from my mind because I never wanted to accept that I could be that far away from home

Home That really is such a placeholder word I don’t have a home in the United States at all I don’t think I ever really did But just the sah little did o home because it will always be better than where I’ve spent the last nine years of ainst the door and partially against the seat so that I can keep oing is still up in the air And he knows it

Maybe I should just shoot hiood it will do when I’n country that I have seen nothing fro else uniinable And Javier is a very powerfulHe could be like the drug lords I sahen I used to have the luxury of American television; the ones with rich, i pools and ten bathrooms, but Javier seems to prefer the façade I don’t knohat he spends his fortune on, but it’s not on real estate as far as I know