Chapter 21
After an arduous night-time drive over the back roads of Mérida, they finally made it back in their hotel room, where the three of them surrounded the cracked Madonna statue laying atop the covers of Quinn’s bed. When Quinn grabbed the statue and tried to break off a piece of the blackware where it was already cracked, it proved stronger than she’d expected, so she impatiently pulled out her g*n.
“Hey!” Jimmy exclaimed in surprise.
“Don’t worry. I’m not going to shoot it, Jimmy,” Quinn replied, rolling her eyes.
Using it as a hammer she smashed the butt of her g*n into the statue until the Madonna broke apart and fell away like an eggshell, revealing the glimmering statuette within.
Kinich Ahau, in all his golden glory, stood proudly among the shards of the Madonna, as if r
