Jade Cabral strides into the 21st century as a golden guy. Brilliant and beautiful, with a California cool and a Harvard education, he is poised for wealth and success in New York’s Financial District.<br><br>But Jade harbors a secret flaw, a thirst for revenge against Se?or Rodriguez, the California landowner who deprived his father – Se?or’s out-of-wedlock son, John Virgil -- of his family’s rightful inheritance and place in the world. Jade thinks if he succeeds in New York, he can make up for every loss and humiliation his family has endured at the hands of Se?or. That searing quest leads him into the arms of Nan Spencer, a lovely, fragile socialite, and to the top of the financial world, the Twin Towers, on September 11, 2001.

Seamless Sky

It was that busybody Jake Dominguez sing-songing. He had the thick, clammy look of the frat boy he had undoubtedly once been and was always digging around for dirt on your private life.


Once Jake leaned in closely enough for Jade to detect a whiff of unwashed hair and whispered, “Well, if you’re flexible enough to bat from both sides of the plate, my girlfriend and I would be happy to accommodate you, as we’re into that scene.”


Jade gazed at him as if looking right through him. Funny, Jake never mentioned that again—though he couldn’t resist poking his nose where it didn’t belong.


If all adulthood were a reaction to childhood, as Jade thought, then childhood could serve adulthood as well. Jade had long since decided that his training under Se?or, the master bastard, would stand him in good stead in coping with the SOBs of the business world.


Chapter 12