Chapter 65

Aliyah took a deep breath as she glanced up at Ben. It was now the supposed day of the reunion and by some miracle, Ben had agreed to let her go. Perhaps, whatever his grandfather said made him change his mind at last

These past few days, the way Aliyah prayed, she probably didn't think she'd had prayed that much all her life, and to think it was nothing but to get the privilege to go out of the house when she wasn't a 13-year-old that needed constant watch— How the mighty had fallen.

Nevertheless, it was a thing of joy for her that he somehow ended up letting her off, though there was a tinge of hesitation in his eyes, which seemed to point to his total district of her.

The way Ben warned her, it felt like she was sworn to a secret brotherhood, that it might cost her her life if she spilled valuable and well-kept info to her friends, he warned her clearly that they could lead to dire consequences if she tried to pull a fast one on him and she knew better than to doubt the raving lu