Chapter 6A Mother's Grief
As Tamayo's battered old VW beetle trundled back towards Mexico City, and his and Tamayo's meeting with Conchita Juárez, Morales pondered on the vagaries of fate. This certainly wasn't the way he'd seen his vacation with Cisco Tamayo panning out, though he had to admit to feeling intrigued by the case itself. The information provided by Doctor Hernandez hadn't been too detailed so far, but gave them enough to be going on with. Morales felt horrified by the thought that the killer had drugged the victim, just enough to make him compliant, but without knocking him out completely, thus leaving the poor man in all probability conscious and able to feel the excruciating pain of his chest being cut open with the obsidian blade, and being able to feel his own beating he
