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Anyway, the second series never happened but Isabel and Natalie are dead. You'll get to know more details as the story progresses. This is just a prologue.
Together We Stand
Prologue
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The restaurant was an elegant place. Brilliant chandeliers were hung above the chattering guests. Pieces of expensive art decorated the huge hall. Impeccably dressed waiters served the elegantly dressed guests. The place was a rendezvous for the richest and most powerful people.
But despite being surrounded with an aura of money and power, Ian Kabra entered the place with a scowl and a glare at the man whom he's supposed to meet.
"What do you want, cousin?" Ian said as soon as he saw his cousin.
As always, Ian was immaculately dressed in an expensive custom-tailored suit and his dark hair was combed to perfection. He stood up erect and his figure was more well-built than the last time his cousin had seen him.
"Relax, Ian," James Goode gestured for him to sit, "I just want to ask a favour from you."
Ian sat down but narrowed his amber eyes at him. His scowl was still in place as he said, "And what would that favour be?"
The relaxed position James had worn from the start of their meeting became more tensed. He sighed and ran his long fingers through his dark curly hair. When he spoke, it was as if his voice had gone a pitch lower and all the calm demeanour he had shown from the start disappeared almost entirely.
"The Vespers are back. They've assassinated at least twenty high-ranking Cahills just in the past year. At least five strongholds were bombed, killing many other Cahills. We don't know how many exactly. A lot of Cahills also started disappearing. My theory is that the Vespers kidnapped them. And they have threatened to do worse things. We need your help, Ian. The Cahills are weaker and much more divided than before. We've dropped in numbers. You weren't the only one who decided to leave the family for good,"
It was such a ridiculous idea. Him? Go back to the Cahills? The family who always treated him as an outsider? He vowed to himself he would never return to that thing they call a family, even though it was his only family left.
"No, I'm not going to help you-" Ian started to say.
"A lot of your friends in the family have gone missing-"
"That's exactly the point. I might be the next one missing if I agree to this little scheme of yours. And friends?" Ian spat out the word 'friends' as if it disgusted him. "I was always treated as an outsider there and never had any real friends."
"But-" James started but Ian stood up and rudely left him without another word.
He sighed as he watched his cousin leave. He should've expected this. After all, it was Ian. He ran his fingers through his hair again as he fished his pocket for his phone and made a call he knew he had to make.
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