HER HUSBAND STATIONED TWENTY ARMED MEN OUTSIDE THE DELIVERY ROOM—BUT HIS WIFE WAS ALREADY TEARING DOWN HIS EMPIRE FROM 30,000 FEET

turned toward him.

“It was the last ghost.”

He walked over and gently touched her hand.

She let him.

Outside, New York shimmered beneath the rain, alive and endless.

Years earlier, Ricardo had stationed twenty armed guards outside a hospital room because he believed Victoria’s pain would make her reckless. He pictured her as a screaming wife, a jealous continue reading …