CHAPTER NINETEEN
let’s go
The journey back to Thalia Island is weird. Jacinta talks about her brothers as if they are all still friendly and not high-ranking members of one of the world’s biggest and deadliest drug cartels. She shares stories of their idyllic youth, always stopping right before she gets to the part about the Garcias seeking vengeance on Jacinta’s father for his dalliance with young Rosario Garcia. She paints a beautiful picture of days spent swimming, chasing jack rabbits, glorious sunsets, bicycle races, cooking with her mother and aunties, general troublemaking …
“If what Felix says is true, if our mother is awaiting my return so she can go be with my father, then I will be glad to give her that peace.”
The woman sitting in the right half of the back seat doesn’t loo
