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. ...