Nivea said, climbing into the passenger side of Eli’s Assembly-issued Jeep Wrangler. The vehicle was silver with windows tinted so dark nothing on the inside could be seen. Each vehicle was specially designed to assist guards in doing their jobs with skill and ease. They had been retrofitted with bulletproof steel. Weapons and ammunition were stored in side-door compartments that were specially lined to go undetected should the vehicles ever be searched. They even had a self-destruct mechanism that, once activated, would cause a chemical explosion that would destroy all evidence of the additions made to the vehicle as well as any other items that may have been inside. They were pretty slick to look at too. Nivea hadn’t been issued one of her own yet. If Eli recommended her for this promotion, she would. If he didn’t she would continue to drive the older-model Jeep with minimal security features that might at some point get her killed. Pulling out of the parking spot, Eli tried not to think along those lines.
