Chapter 85 The King Needs A Queen

Aaliyah didn’t need to be urged out of the SUV when it drove her off the ferry that Angelique had commandeered, then brought her to that little parking area halfway up the lonely mountain. She thanked the driver, then charged up the narrow path cut into the side of the mountain as if she had something to prove.

Because she did.

And it was probably wiser to get as much of her jagged, furious energy out before she reached the Hermitage.

Only because she didn’t think that it would serve anyone if she went in there after him, guns blazing.

She already knew where that would lead. And she needed this to be different. She had to find some way to make this different from what had come before.

Once she got to the Hermitage’s gates, she worried that it was entirely possible Omar Farouq might have locked her out. If he’d had the slightest suspicion that she would come up here after him.

But when she reached the door, a simple push opened it up, and she found herself in that stone court once more