The sun rose over Golden Acres Road retirement community in the East End of Ottawa, Ontario. As was his custom, Grandpa Frankel Jones rose with the sun. The six-foot-tall, dark-skinned and silver-haired Jamaican Canadian gentleman went for a walk around the premises with his little dog Marquis. He walked past Stephen Jackson, the sleepy security guard, and looked at the big indoor pool. The vast yard looked inviting on this cool morning in early April.
In his sixty-six years of existence upon this Planet, Grandpa Jones has accomplished a lot of things. The man moved to the province of Ontario, Canada, from the City of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1980s as a young dreamer. Grandpa Jones attended the University of Toronto, where he met his future wife Eileen Chan, a lovely lady of Chinese and Irish descent. The two of them had a daughter, Kyra Jones. Eileen Chan died in a car accident and Grandpa Jones did his best to raise Kyra Jones on his own.
Kyra Jones grew up to be a tall, fine woman of exotic good looks. Kyra's unique blend of Asian, Irish and Jamaican resulted in her being tall, beautiful and downright alluring. Grandpa Jones tried his best to steer Kyra Jones onto the right path but she was a wild woman. What Grandpa Jones tried to teach Kyra Jones was stuff that life itself would teach her. Oh well, that's life, eh?
"Always fun to have visitors," Grandpa Jones said to himself as he thought of last weekend's escapades. A rueful grin creased the older black man's features. Grandpa Jones's granddaughter Avalina Jones was twenty years old and willing to do anything to get the family fortune. Grandpa Jones put Avalina through the paces as they say. Nothing ventured means nothing gained, that's what Grandpa Jones firmly believes.
Grandpa Jones has been estranged from his daughter Kyra Jones ever since she ran off with a white dude named Irwin Goddard. Goddard left Kyra pregnant, and abandoned her since his lily-white relatives would not accept him being in an interracial relationship. Kyra raised her daughter Avalina with financial support from her own father Frankel Jones. Nowadays, Kyra Jones is a forty-something real estate agent operating in Orleans, Ontario. As for Avalina, she is twenty years old and a newcomer to Algonquin College. All is well that ends well, right?
Avalina knows that her grandfather Frankel Jones has a net worth of a few million dollars. The old black man lives in a second-rate retirement home but owns properties all over provincial Ontario and parts of Quebec. Avalina will do anything to get some of that money and she knows that Grandpa Jones is a wicked man according to her momma Kyra Jones stories. A gal's got to do what a gal's got to do...
