At first she thought a bomb had gone off. Then, seeing the bed slide and doorway shiver, she realized it was a tremor. They were common in Guatemala and Antigua. She hopped on her foot, trying to adjust the calendar’s weight on her leg. It wasn’t too heavy to carry, but it was becoming unwieldy.
The soft whine of metal grating on metal was barely audible under shouting coming from across the compound. Marcela c****d her head, hoping the safecracker wouldn’t take too long. It had to make slow and full rotations to be sure it plugged in the proper numbers, but it beat doing everything manually by stethoscope. Plus it always made her feel like a proper American spy.
The sound of gunfire nearly made her lose her balance and drop the calendar. She gripped it firmly, hearing the sound of shotg
