Love Lost, Love Found

Chapter 1

“You know I bloody wish I was joking." My dad said this, shaking his head and staring at me pitifully. “Why are you staring at me like that?” I frowned. “Oh, because you think I’m joking,” he said. “Heard of Isak Santos?” I frowned and stared at my dad as though he had just fallen from the skies. “Who’s Isak?” “The man you’d be getting married to,” my dad said so simply that it infuriated me the most. “For the umpteenth time, Dad, is this a joke or something?” I asked. “You know I still haven’t gotten over the disappearance of Arthur, and now you want me to get married to someone else.” “He isn’t just someone else,” he corrected. “He’s the man that would save us from the danger looming over our heads.” “I’m lost here." I shook my head in confusion. “What danger? What’s happening?” He handed me a card that looked like a wedding invitation card, and slowly, I began to incline as to what it was about. Grumpily, I collected it from him. The more I swept my eyes through the paper, ...