152 Heavy Losses

Adken Parry felt he was out of his mind! He had meticulously prepared everything over the years, expending so much time, energy and resources to bring Adam under his control but now everything had been lost! If only the boy had been a little less talented and a little less smart, everything would have been great! 

But the boy had been playing Tai Chi with him for so long that at present Adken Parry felt that he had been too gentle with the boy! He had thrown him into the village so that he would grow up to be a slow witted country bumpkin like his mother when they first came to the city. But he had forgotten that in spite of being an illiterate woman from the countryside, his mother had done well by him and she would expend similar energy on her only grandson!