Chapter One

The air blew across the roads and streets that burst into life as the morning sun drenched the world in color, chasing away the darkness. A plane, private as no commercial would fly this late or early with one passenger, came skidding down the runway into a private hanger where a car, yes you guessed right a private limo waited to take the single passenger away.

Jerry Salinger checked his wristwatch counting the minutes of the delayed flight, he was suppose to be home with his wife, cuddled into the sheets and resting for today’s work, but he’d been called in at ten at night to be at the hanger and pick up the passenger by midnight only the plane was delayed by weather and had now gotten in by six in the morning. Rubbing his tired eyes, yawning and stretching he watched as the pilot lowered the stairs and stepped aside allowing the passenger off.

Seventeen year old Ashley Davies clad in high tops, tight fitting blue jeans and a red polo shirt matching the red streak in her bangs which swiped the left side of her face while the rest of the dark brown hair was pulled into a pony tail. Sun glasses covered tired hazelnut eyes glazed over from tears shed in her sleep, licking her lips she tugged her over night bag over her shoulder and descended the stairs walking toward Jerry.

“Miss. Ashley,” the old man of forty nodding with a sad smile.

“Jerry,” she breathed out, dropping her bag and throwing her arms around his broad shoulders, taking the warm strong arms encircling her waist. Jerry was her father’s head of security and she hadn’t seen him in so long, actually she saw him a year more than her father.

Raife Davies, rock legend, cheated on his wife when Ashley was three, in the divorce Christine who was a very loving mother got custody of the little girl. Raife moved out of their four bed room New Port house to live in Los Angeles where he felt he could spend all the money he wanted with out his wife nagging him so that’s how he ended up in a three story mansion. Raife came and visited every once in awhile but after Ashley’s tenth birthday he stopped, Jerry came by on her eleventh birthday to give her a present than he too never returned.