Ayala cherished the compound where she was raised, and called it home. Under the protective arm of her Mistress and Master, she knew she and her mother were fortunate to reside there. While it often required hard work living on the compound, she never desired living anywhere else. Her Master, whom she highly respected, was an extremely prosperous man and ran a household filled with fun and laughter. Blessed with ten children of his own, Ayala loved the joy they generated whenever they came to visit their parents on the compound—which by the way was often. However, unexpectedly, a dark cloud descended on them all one day—taking away all of her Master’s earthly possessions. Matters went from bad to worse when all ten of his children were
