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hence her preference to hang and loiter with the workers rather than the rich and business-like company her father kept.
    By Alex’s sixteenth birthday, she was filled with enough mutual resentment for it to physically appear that she was unaffected on the outside and around staff. On the inside however she was aching for a parent, bitterness and twisted love bordering disturbing levels, which soon resulted in nightmares, sleepless nights and general feelings of persecution and emotional neglect.
    All Alex has to remember her mother by are a few shattered and vague memories, strange and curiously remembered metaphors from when she was a baby. A lot of people claim Alex’s memories of her mother are merely memories conjured up by her subconscious, like an off-the-wall defence mechanism to help her deal with the absence of a mother figure in her life; a theory Alex denies flat out. All Alex ever craved as a child was a mother, and she had many step forward in the form of babysitters and nannies, but in her heart and soul, there was always something missing.
    Her sister Sarah was the apple of her eye and although only her adopted sister, she never loved her any less, and she acted more of a mother to Sarah as her father had very little time for either of them. Sarah was adopted by the Beaumont family after she was found as a baby by Collette. There was a wide and extensive appeal to find Sarah’s mother at the time which eventually came to a dead end, so subsequently, after a lot of legal red tape, the Beaumont family successfully adopted her a year later with the emphasis on family loosely. Her father really wasn’t interested and Alex found she was begging for the adoption like Sarah was nothing more than a puppy found in the street. Her father buckled in the end just to get Alex off his back after she in protest, chained herself to his study door. After greasing a few wheels and a few palms, the adoption went through without a hitch and the red tape, as Alex suspected, was just her father being the stubborn old bastard.
    The mystery behind who Sarah’s real mother was and where she vanished to has always puzzled Alex. When she was found just outside the gates of Beaumont’s mansion six years ago, the island security was in full force due to the development of Beaumont Research and the Bio-Chemicals wing of Beaumont Pharmaceuticals. It was basically physically impossible to get on and off the island without being questioned by the BSCS Elite Security Force or being recorded by the CCTV that monitored every square foot of the island, so it always perplexed Alex how the enigmatic mother moved about the island without trace. Rumours went round that Sarah was actually bought or even the secret love child of Mayor Beaumont, but she was found that fateful day, and Alex always stuck her feet into the ground when she heard anything like that. She most definitely wasn’t sticking up for father, that much was true, but she fought for Sarah all the time and rumours like that were messing with her sister’s good name, something Alex never ever put up with.
    As far as intelligence went Alex was probably about average, she wasn’t retarded, stupid or even intelligent; she knew what she needed to know and learnt as and when. The strange thing is, when you have a bank account with millions already in it, the abilities of the brain are not really needed because the only thing you need to know is how to spend it, and being a typical twenty-one-year-old girl it almost came naturally. Alex had most stuff and did pretty much most things; Platinum gym memberships, the Chess Café, water skiing, Martial Arts, clubbing and everything else Blackwater had to offer and being without the need of a job or any other normal way of living she got extremely bored very easily.
    Aside from the friends at Beaumont Towers as she called it, she had her elite band of brainless teenage friends, social net-workers and pointless status hounds; plenty of male