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“I can’t believe this.” She cleaned her forehead with the back of her forearm and leaned her back against the back wall of the wagon, her head hanging low. “I don’t wanna go to work dressed as a clown or a fish.”
“Are you really worried about that bet right now?” Scott asked incredulously. “We’re in so much shit. We tore this thing apart for nothing.”
“I know, I know.” She seemed despondent. “I just...I was so sure this was it. I can’t believe I made a call this bad.” She shook her head as silence descended upon us. Until she exploded, “Damn it,” then punched the back wall with the side of her fist.
Thud.
Scott looked at me in shock.He heard it, too.
“Mia,” I started slowly, “do that again.” She peered at us in confusion. “Please.”
Still leaning against the wall, she raised one cautious brow but punched as I asked.
Thud.
Then again.
Thud.
And again.
Thud.
She stood up in wonder. “This wall is hollow.”
“We need to break it.”
“No!” She stopped me. “It might make things harder for forensics.”
“Bring me a toolbox,” Scott shouted. “Now.” His order made the other agents and policemen jump into action, but Billy started to freak out. “Don’t let him run away. We’ll need him.”
With renewed motivation, the three of us grabbed a screwdriver and commenced opening the partition, unscrewing it carefully. The bolts were screwed tight, but we weren’t deterred.
When we took off the first leaf of the wall, we saw it: an extraordinary amount of bricks of what we could only assume to be cocaine.
“Ha! Look at that.” Mia cackled in laughter, slapping the wall. “We did it.We found it.” Actually,shedid. “Thank God.”
“I can’t believe this.” Scott was somewhere between wonder and concern. “There are easily over one hundred bricks here. We’re talking about millions of dollars worth of cocaine.”
“I know.We’re rich!” Mia couldn’t stop laughing.
“You know we’re not keeping this, right?” Scott tried to hide his grin behind his severe features.
“Maybeyouwon’t. But at two hundred thousand a gram? This is my ticket to retirement.” She even managed to wrench a chuckle out of Scott.
That stopped once she inspected one of the bricks closer. She narrowed her eyes and pursed her lips. Gazing at us, she raised the brick and pointed to the brand imprinted on it.
A scorpion.
TheAlacrán.
We ended up not going home that day. Mia and I accompanied Scott in counting and weighing the drugs and sending them to forensics. Following that, Scott tried to interrogate Billy, who kept his mouth shut and legs trembling.
He was in a huge load of shit.Better him than us.
We helped Scott in whatever we could as he, in return, talked us up and made sure Bryants & Walker was known to be responsible for that huge arrest.
“No matter where you are, The Bryant Prodigy is still breathing fire.”
