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

“None of your fucking business,” he yelled.


He called Alicia from his truck on his cell.


“I need you,” he said. “Find me.”


At their Barbie beach house, they fucked furiously, facing each other, her nails digging into his spine and dragging along his back. He didn’t care. Perhaps part of him believed he should be punished for some offense he did not understand. But no amount of closeness with Alicia would ever convince him that his family was anything but cursed, like Cain. He pulled away from Alicia and lay back.


“Can you believe them?” he said, disgusted.


He was surprised to hear her throaty laugh as she lay her head on the pillow next to his, arching her back.


Chapter 45