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

“Look, I gotta get going. I can’t control what you do, Belle. Sometimes I wish I could, but I can’t. Mark my words, though: Nothing good is going to come of this—not your pursuit of your grandfathers’ estates, and certainly not your attempt to bring Jade and Ms. Martinez together. You see, people like them are different from you and me. They don’t need to be loved. But then, I wonder if you really understand what love is.”


Belle decided to put her hurt aside momentarily—for all her superficiality, she was capable of being moved, especially by the few she loved dearly—to concentrate on the plan at hand. And soon she saw her opportunity to put it in motion on an unseasonably warm day on which she got her period—a sure-fire sign that she would be sick. God must be smiling on her, she thought, else why would the planets align so beautifully?


Chapter 40