He tightened his grip on the gun butt. “Why are you telling me this?” His query was whispered. “Why don’t you expose the murderer?”“She wasn’t my mother.”“She abandoned me, so why should I feel anything for her?”“She abandoned you to save your life.”Merrick closed his eyes for several seconds. “In other words she sacrificed herself for me?”“It was the ultimate sacrifice. Your mother was an undercover DEA special agent assigned to the Mexican border region. She’d infiltrated a group who’d operated openly and without impunity between the U.S. and Mexico.“She’d been assigned to gather evidence to put several high-ranking Mexican Federales, at least eight U.S. Border Patrol agents and two Texas and Arizona ranchers in prison for the rest of their lives.“Victoria, who’d discovered she was pregnant, requested a leave but before she was scheduled to depart Mexico she was abducted and held prisoner until it was time for her to give birth.”“Are you saying someone blew her cover?”
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