1 PROLOGUE

Alec was born a bastard and nobody ever let him forget it, not his whore of a mother, not his classmates and teachers and certainly not the citizens of the small town of Clavesville. It was ironical for most of the men in the town were clients of his mother yet they looked upon him as if he were a demonic spawn. He found it most amusing how some of the kids bullied him and yet he had caught their fathers fucking his mother.

Alec knew he was born extremely intelligent and very good looking thanks to his mother's genes. Girls always stared at him despite his bastard and whore mother reputation. Yet as he had learnt early on life was always going to deal him a heavy hand, he got into a car accident when he was sixteen years and lost mobility of his legs. He was diagnosed to be a cripple and would never walk. Everything became much worse and life was so unbearable for him. The town shunned him and he could barely buy groceries as he was treated like a leper. A rumour had spread that his car accident wasn't really an accident but a relatialition from drug dealers he had stolen from.

The most ridiculous part was the town's Sheriff visiting our little trailer park and questioning him about the supposed drug deal. Alec wondered if the man had taken leave of his senses to believe a rumour which was started by a group of teenagers. He for a fact knew that the Sheriff's son was behind it. The bastard had always been jealous of him. In anycase Alec told the man to back the fuck off if he did not have sufficient evidence or he would call child protective services on him. The man backed off but the look he gave him Alec knew he had made an enemy that day. What was worse the Sheriff came that night and paid his mother for her services and he could hear it all night as his wheelchair was far away from his bed to facilitate him moving away.

It was in such a horrid environment that Alec grew and the next two in high school were only worse, never better. His mother let him fend for himself since he could remember and being a cripple did not cause her to find any maternal love or pity in her. He had to support himself which thanks to his IQ was not a difficult problem. He learnt everything that could benefit him from the local library and his eidetic memory came through for him. He specialized in finance and computers as he figured one of them would be a quick way to earn money for him. In this way like a tenacious weed he survived by writing small computer programs here and there. Nothing major, but enough to feed him and barely pay his accrued expensive hospital bills.

Alec planned to sit for his SAT and the get a scholarship to a university. He knew with his smarts he would ace it.He sat for his SAT and passed it. However someone reported that he had cheated on the exam to the college he had applied for his scholarship. Alec's scholarship was revoked and he could not even apply for college again as he couldn't even afford it. Besides he knew someone was manipulating the system to destroy his life. When he went back to the trailer that night his mother kicked him out on orders from the sheriff, afterall he was eighteen and an adult. The worst was someone emptied his bank account and he was going to be miserable. If he hadn't had the presence of mind to put some of his money in anonymous account he would be homeless. For some reason someone wanted him to remain a miserable bastard all his life and make no progress. The worst part was the enemy was in the dark and he was in the light.

It was six years later that Alec would find out who his enemy was and he would dearly pay for that knowledge.

When Alec turned twenty-four he finally met his mortal enemy. It was Harry Johnson. The Johnson's practically owned the whole town and it made no sense to him for the vicious hatred the man gaved upon him. However he was fast made aware of his faults. And it was a fault he could not correct for how could one erase their own DNA? It this day that he knew he was the Johnson bastard, no wonder, his mother didn't abort him-birthing him was too beneficial.

Harry hated him because the old Johnson always compared us and demeaned him. The bastard had threatened had threatened to disinherit him in Alec's favour. His car accident was no accident it was premeditated. His backfired college application was also prearranged. It was clear that old Johnson was using Alec as his heir's grinding stone, any success was magnified to create a competitor. It created a qualified heir according to old Johnson idea. Alec soon realized that his whole life had just been used as a pawn for a wealthy man's game. As Harry's minions tied him up with rocks and had him sunk to the depth of the Atlantic, he realized that wealth meant power, and power meant life.