UNTAMED DESIRES
After twenty minutes of silence, Mara reaches over, threads our fingers together on the gearshift.
“We’re meeting my contact in thirty,” she says. “She’ll get us new identities, a boat to the mainland, then a flight out of Dakar, after that… we disappear properly.”
“No more half-measures,” I say.
“No more.”
The Jeep bounces over a rise, ahead, a small cluster of whitewashed buildings hugs the coastline old fishing village turned off-grid safe house, one light burns in the window of the largest structure.
Mara kills the headlights, coasts the last hundred meters in darkness, parks behind a low wall, the driver stays in the car, we get out.
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