He wanted a compound further up the hill but there was no room to build another compound. He needed to bankrupt a family if he was going to move his f...mily higher in location and status. The marriage of his daughter to the son of a man owning a huge gold mine north of Midtown was the first step in his plan.Today, what should have been a day of joyous celebration was instead a day of total chaos. The girl was missing. Halvar da Larvassa was not surprised. The eight year old had a mind of her. I'm slightly curvy, but in all the right places. I'm shorter than average girl which makes me look younger than I am. I have dark brown hair which I keep in a short, Chinese Bob. My skin color is not exactly olive, but is slightly lighter than your average colored girl. I have hazel brown eyes and dimples when I smile.Sulayman, never complimented me much on my looks, in fact he'd always try to make me change my style of dressing, or complain that I looked so much prettier with a bit of make up. ." Alex's father began."Dad, you know I spend quite a bit of time in the college library. I am reading graduate course material for math, several sciences, electrical engineering, psychology, philosophy, anthropology and linguistics. In a year, I think I could take Ph. D. qualifying exams in several programs."There was a stunned silence for a minute. Alex's parents had been almost deliberately ignorant of his studies. It had been clear after the operation that Alex was more than just an. I could have picked it up. Your customer service couldn’t be worse,” snipped Katie, “Were you the one who called?”The young employee didn’t hand it to her, “Yes that was me.”The hard bodied wife rolled her eyes and she remembered their conversation. He quietly spoke as he stared at the beautiful business executive in front of him, “Do you have time to sit down and I’ll explain what I found?”Mrs. Jackson sighed loudly. “No! I don’t have time today as I told you earlier! I am busy! We scheduled.