28

THE COUNCIL OF THE UNDERGROUND

~STEPHAN

I speed down the busy roads of the big city as I thought about what they wanted from me. They had done countless business in the dark with my father and now they wanted to get down with me.

There was just one problem, I was not my father and I had no intention of being so. I already knew that Frank would already be waiting for me at the rendezvous point.

The Council had its headquarters in the city metro among the numerous sky scrappers built to ensure the economic development of the city. It was the city of blood and honor, of murder and betrayal.

The Council was made up of bored old men and women who could no longer play the game. Veterans of the old gang wars, they made up the system in which factions could operate.

The Council had been an old ally of my father and it was only right that I paid them their duly visit even though I thought they were all bunch of egotistical old chrones who did not know when to give up.

I was glad when Father ha