James: “what…? do you think she is after your girl?”

Bette: “no…, Maura took Tina under her wing since they met, she is like her sister”

James: “okay, I will tell Tina on Friday; we will meet in Cambridge, she invited me to give a talk about fish adaptation”

After they ended their lunch, each of them went to their labs and Bette starts working her models on her computer, remembering the time when Tina transferred from Texas A&M to MIT.

Remembering    

After the death of her son, Audrey Kennard, was devastated; she didn’t go back to drugs and alcohol, but became more resentful with her ex-husband because of the way he treated her son; the nasty man didn’t tell her that her son had a family; but after three years working as a supervisor of the CEOs of the Kennard mini-empire; she accidentally heard a conversation between John and his son, Donovan, in which the old man was reproaching his heir for his behavior with Louis’ daughter and widow; it was then that Audrey learned that she has two grandchildren and a daughter in law;  even though the woman was in a rehabilitation program in a clinic for very long time, she is already recovered, and has been working in the recent years, supervising her investments and participating  in the board meetings of shareholders of John’s mini empire; indeed she possess the 25% of the shareholding, fortunately, her father made John sign a prenuptial agreement, protecting his daughter’s patrimony, so, she owns a considerable fortune. In view of the last developments she commits herself to trace back the whereabouts of his son’s family to meet and help them, and after searching for three years using the service of several private investigators she finds out where they lived and she decided to move to Houston.

When Tina was 16 years, living with her mother in Houston, Audrey knocked their door asking for Mani, after introduce herself, to a reticent Mani, she continued visiting them several times; but what made Mani to trusts in Audrey, was the reaction of the old woman when she finds out that her granddaughter Louise had to stay hidden for fear of a new attack by her uncle Don; indeed Audrey cried and cursed her ex-husband and his sons. Before Tina went to study at Texas A&M, her grandmother gave them the house she bought in Houston and one of her houses in Boston as well as a significant amount of stocks of her father’s and hers companies, as well as many bonds from the Kennard’s enterprises, which gave Mani, a very high monthly income, enough to live very comfortable with her daughter, the money was also enough to pay for the college expenses of Tina without having to work, though, Mani kept working in the Peabody’s bank. Tina went to Texas A&M to study biochemistry, ending her first year with excellent grades, unfortunately Mani started feeling acute headaches which physicians discovered was an aneurysm product of a not very old injury, an injury produced three and a half years ago when she was assaulted in Houston by Don’s ruffians; the treatment of the illness required for Mani to undergo surgery, which should be followed by slow recovery; as soon as Audrey was informed by Tina about Mani’s condition, the old woman brought her daughter in law to Boston to be treated in one of the most competent medical institutions, which forced her granddaughter to transfer to MIT in Cambridge.