The guests started to arrive and the grand ballroom soon filled with buzzing chatter. Some were at the hors d'oeuvres, some were already drinking, some were at the lounges, the others at the garden - but all who came had a goal in mind, to gain contacts and hopefully go home with a business deal.
Some of the young women, however, had a different goal - to make Shawn Kingsley interested in them, enough to make one of them his girlfriend and eventually marry into the Kingsley family.
Suzi and Adam's family were invited as their companies were involved in an off shore partnership with the Kingsley's. This is a good thing, though, as Pru can feel a bit at ease knowing there were someone in the crowd that she knew.
Before the Ball started, the Kingsley and Turner families were scheduled to
