Something about the whole thing just didn’t sit right with her. Sheri suspected that the man in the backseat beside her felt the same as well from the way he kept his attention on the two up front, and it only served to heighten her sense of something not quite kosher being afoot here. It had all seemed rather suspicious from the moment she’d accepted the assignment, honestly. Why bother to send two to do a job that one should be able to handle? While the company had deep pockets to the point of seeming almost bottomless, why cut two rather sizable checks to see to something as mundane as a simple exchange of weapons for cash? She’d voiced this on the plane, and while she could appreciate being wary of the cartel, it just seemed rather excessive.



Unless of course, it truly wasn’t, and that was what bothered her.


The company was secretive to the point that even after almost ten years she didn’t even truly know anything other than that they paid, and they paid well. The checks always cleared, and there seemed to be an almost endless variety of tasks that needed seeing to. Along with the deep pockets, there were fingers in an assortment of fairly shady pies. That didn’t really bother her too much, money was surprisingly very effective at smoothing over any occasional twinges of guilt.


The car kicked up clouds of dust as they traveled the dirt road, the haze casting an almost sepia tint to the scenery whizzing by outside the window. The driver mumbled something quietly in Spanish to the guard in the passenger seat that netted a slight smirk from him, those brown eyes flicking back to the rearview and seeing to settle directly on hers, if only for a moment.


She simply stared back, and they were just as quickly trained back on the road ahead. They had to be getting close to town now, where hopefully everything would go exactly as planned. A quick swapping out of bags, a handshake and then on their way back to the plane, and back home until the next job came through.


Some how, she didn’t think that was going to be the case, though.