Prologue

America 1980.

"What do you think you are doing?" He shouted at me.
"Sorry sir, I was just cleaning the place. I am sorry if I disrurbed you."
"Well then shooo, away with you."

In case you were wondering, that was my master Adrian Ivashkov. I have been working at his villa for six months now, and all I ever got from him was humiliation. Humiliation, something I got used to since I was born. I was never born rich and my family was never rich. I have been working since I was twelve so I could get some money for my family. At the age of fifteen, they both passed away suudenly. And to be perfectly honest with you, I was happy for them. I knew that wherever they are right now, they have to be in a better place than where they were when they were alive.

I was grateful for this job though. Although it was horrible, it was a steady job with a place I could live in. I lived in the attic in a tiny room. But then again, that isn't the worst part of it.

SInce we are not to be trusted most of the time, I am always shackled. If I am in my room, I am shackled with iron grips to the wall; when I was working my hand and legs were bound together.

I can't exactly quit, because I would be on teh streets in a moment, without any food or money or a home. So I have to put up with this if I want to survive.

My name is Dimitri Belikov, I am originally from Russia; and if you haven't guessed it by now, here in America we are the scum of the society. I am in love with the girl that lives in this house, Rose Hathaway, who is engaged to Adrian Ivashkov.