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Chapter 1

Aliza lives with her uncle and aunt since last twelve years. She lost her parents in a road accident when she was just six. Since then her paternal uncle had been taking care of her. Her aunt despises her since the beginning and refused to take the responsibility of her but since Aliza's mother was an orphan and had no other relation from her father's side she was helplessly left to the custody of her uncle.

Aliza's aunt known to be a witch by her mentality took the optimum advantage of her impotent situation and used her as a house maid, cook and all purpose house cleaner. But Aliza was a hard worker since the beginning. After completing her house work she used to sit for study till late in the night and obtained the best grades in school.

Five years back her uncle Nelson retired from work as a head supervisor from Messers Schroeder's & Co. Since then Aliza's problems increased manifold. The savings Nelson could make hardly sufficed to feed the four stomachs at home. Her's and her cousin brother's education were out of choice. As a result Aliza was forced to take over employment immediately after her school.

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Flashback.

It was nine in the morning and like everyday Aliza took the newspaper daily and started circling the jobs that were suitable for her qualification. "Aliza, did you prepare the lunch box for your brother?" Her aunt yelled from the living hall painting her nails. Every day Aliza got up at five, prepared breakfast and lunch for all four of them and went prepared for the interviews after searching the daily. This routine had been continuing since a month leaving more despair to Aliza for each day passing.

"Do not lose hope so soon Ali." Her uncle patted her shoulder. With the breeze coming from the window the paper holding vacancies notification flew out of her hand and Aliza's vision accidentally fell on the top of the business column. It was a photo of a young and handsome entrepreneur. Aliza was instantly attracted by the charming Apollo and looked through the column to learn more. On the headlines words were pasted with clear blank ink in bold - The youngest and the most successful business man of the country swipes another record.

Below was the photo was of the Adonis shaking hands with the president of US. Wow. Aliza was intrigued and read through the report. Charles Rodriguez, the CEO of Richmond Industries sweeps away the previous record of country's richest magnate with a turnover of more than 500 millions a month. Aliza's jaw dropped to the floor reading the business column. Can anyone be that rich in the world? Probably he is richer than the president of US. She thought implausible.

She was too engrossed with the Apollo and his achievements that Aliza did not take notice of Andrew who went behind her fascinated to see what his sister was reading. "Hey sis" he asked surprised pointing to the young business man on the newspaper. "He came to our school just three days ago and gave a brilliant speech on self motivation at the assembly. That young man is very rich." Andrew remarked with his eyes wide and hands spread to explain the enormous wealth of the tycoon. "He donated a huge sum to our library and science lab and our principal was corps perdu to describe his achievements and generosity."

The day and the next followed by many such days Aliza went around the streets of California searching for jobs. With the meagre education that she obtained no firm was ready to adopt her in a white collar job and the few that wanted to hire, paid very less that was insufficient even for a day's meal. With the days passing Aliza felt more distressed.

Her uncle was jobless and at the age of sixty five nobody was ready to appoint him. The blow-ups of her aunt were increasing day by day. Aliza desperately needed an employment. Ten days later as she was once again looking through the daily, her eyes caught sight of Trident Pharma.