The Vanishing :Prologue-Chapter One

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Prologue

The more things change, the more they stay the same, Talia thought. She thought the hatred her family had endured since moving to the United States was a thing of the past.

But here it was, happening again.

She twirled a long strand of her dark hair, a nervous habit from the time she was little. Seeing the SUV parked across the street was…