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Only a handful of people knew the truth Knew that his wife and his deputy Hershel Jenkins had been involved with a roup so bloodthirsty and powerful that even Aet to them It had taken a team of dead men to catch them

He continued to stand there, to stare at her Tried to figure out why she would turn into nothing roup of powerful ht they could determine as and as not American

A group of men that kidnapped, hunted, raped, and eted, and his wife had helped them

He couldn’t believe it He couldn’t believe that he hadn’t suspected her That he couldn’t have known That somehow it had slipped by him

A cocaine whore That hat had been written in the report by one of the federal agents who had wrapped up the paperwork in the case

His wife had been a cocaine whore

He wanted to shake his head He wanted to deny it He didn’t want to accept that he hadn’t seen it He couldn’t believe that the years of training, that his years as a sheriff, had taught him so little that he hadn’t even suspected her

Or had he?

Had he even been surprised the day a bleeding, nearly hysterical Rory Malone had given him and that teaether? He hadn’t wanted to believe it, but he realized now that despite his horror, his shock, he hadn’t disbelieved it

So rong with Sienna So She hadn’t been a wife in years but she had refused to divorce him She had threatened more than once to take their son, and to make certain Kent’s life was hell, if Rick ever divorced her

He’d convinced himself at one time that it was an empty threat That she wouldn’t hurt Kent Now he knehat a monster she truly was, and he thanked God that his sister had done more to raise the child than Sienna

But it didn’t ease his guilt Six federal agents had died over the years because of infor woman She had been hunted like an animal, brutalized, tortured Raped

His soul felt as though it were being ripped froht of what had happened to her Her and other young women Wives Mothers Sisters Women whose only crime had been the color of their skin They had been Mexican or of Mexican descent And they had been punished for it in the worst ways By his wife

He could still feel the hollow, brutal shauts like a brand He may as well have killed those women himself He should be as liable for their deaths as she was, yet he had been cleared