14 Like an eternity (1/2)

Sam was personally picked up by Miguel in her detention cell and shipped to Tijuana State Prison. On the way there, Miguel did not say a word. After 10 minutes, he stopped and released her handcuffs. He did not remove the ankle cuffs. As he continued the journey, he told her that he was at risk of Sam being able to escape. Then, just before the election, he would have to put up with annoying reporter questions and admit he had failed at the job. Not a good recommendation for his new election.

After about an hour, he turned off the main road and drove to a secluded parking lot. He opened the door for Sam and wordlessly gave her a lit cigarette. Sam gratefully accepted her, her first cigarette as it seemed, endless hours. The last cigarette she had smoked in the gazebo. It seemed like an eternity.

Miguel kept enough distance from Sam so she could not hurt him with the burning cigarette. Sam grinned, he was certainly a well-rested and successful law enforcement officer. Miguel paced up and down in front of Sam, like a captive Tiger in the circus.

In checkered words, he told her that they were headed for the only mixed jail in Mexico. Out of necessity, the government was forced to temporarily house inmates of the State Women's Prison in the Tijuana State Penitentiary until the dilapidated Frauenknast building was renovated and released by the Building Inspectorate.

For one thing, Miguel had chosen this prison because the director was a nationally known corrupt pig, firstly, because it was well known that it was extremely hard in this store and that just the women there did not have much to laugh about. The director's nickname was whispered to everyone behind the scenes, La Mortida, the bribe.

When Sam started to protest, Miguel cut her off. He had to make outwardly believable that he could do her something worse than death, he had owed his reputation as a tough supervisor. He concluded his hectic speech with the words, ”This is how it works here in Mexico, the way you look, you'll be fine, let yourself be fucked and offer your body to the men who can help you in your situation and I will buy you as fast as possible. ”

Sam snapped the smoked cigarette away with her fingers. ”Would not be the first time that my body is my only asset.”

Miguel nervously fingered a cylindrical tube from his trouser pocket. He held out the silver thing to Sam.

”Here, that will make your first days easier, because there are two 50 dollar bills in it.”

Sam looked at the silver tube. It narrowed at one end, with a rounded tip. At the other end there was a thin cord about 20 cm long. Sam dawned on it. ”Will you please tell me where to hide it?” She glared at Miguel.

Miguel shrugged equably. ”We routinely examine only the body orifices that are the same in men and women, so you should choose a body orifice that a man does not have.”

Sam looked at him indignantly. Miguel fished a pen from his breast pocket and held it out to Sam. ”Push it in as far as it goes, if you did the routine search, they gave you the prison clothes, get that thing out and put it in your pocket, then nothing should go wrong.”

Sam glared at Miguel, who returned her gaze indifferently, without showing any emotion.