LEXI POV
I pulled into the little town well before sunrise. It wasn’t well lit and my headlights weren’t the brightest. I found what I thought was a legal parking place, ratcheted my seat back and dozed off. I had pointed the nose of my car towards the water so I knew the sun would rise behind me. This town was on the Gulf of California so facing the ocean faced west.
I woke up to someone tapping on my car window. Despite it being late October, it was warm down here and the inside of my car was approaching a broiling temperature. I looked to see who had woken me up. A short, old woman stood outside my car holding a basket of fresh tortillas.
“Do you want to buy a tortilla?” she asked me in Spanish.
I answered her. “Yes, please. With butter and cinnamon.”
She balanced her basket on t
