Chapter 91

The heavy door closed behind his second in command as the man left to implement the first phase of his master's newest plan.

Espada sat back in his chair and ran a bored eye over the maps and documents on his large, expensive desk. Webb County was large and rich with many resources he longed to plunder. When he first moved north from Jimenez Mexico, he wanted to rid himself of the taint and poison of his family, to create his own name, his own legacy in Texas. His wealth, his father's wealth, was used to purchase land and build a large, grand hacienda from which he could rule his growing empire-an empire that now stretched from El Rio Grande to Nueces. Of all the towns in his territory, Laredo was proving to be the most difficult to tame. The people were scared, but they were also hardened Texans who're unwilling to leave their lands behind.