THE URBAN PHOENIX: Arthur Salvatore's rise from the ashes.

CHAPTER 12

"Little brother?" Arthur asked. "Do I know you?"

"Stop the joke, Arthur," The man said. "Look, It's me, Liam. Your stepbrother. Here," He took off his face cap and dark shades.

Arthur looked at him again, he was still having some difficulty piecing together some of his memories. It was still all a bunch of garbage in his head. Then slowly, it started stringing together.

"Liam? Liam!" He remembered. Liam was the son of his stepmother before she married his father and he had not been really wicked or evil to Arthur all those years ago, but neither had he been exceptionally friendly. So Arthur was confused as to why he was there.

"I didn't know what to think when you disappeared all those months ago," Liam said. "Mother wouldn't say anything. Your father, Edward too refused to comment. We all just assumed that you were missing, or worst-case scenario, dead. Where were you?"

Arthur shrugged. "I've been… huh, alive. As you can see." Arthur shrugged out of his coat and dumped it on the