Chapter 16 : Sneaking Out

Lyla

I'm shocked when the door to my room swings closed behind me.

My dark and empty room felt hollow. Rashid… left me?

I tried to make sense of it.

When we'd come back to this side of the palace and made our way upstairs, I expected him to bring me to his room and finish what we'd started this morning, but all he'd done was open the door to mine and shove me inside before closing the door behind me.

Baffled, I flipped on the light switch.

He'd seemed upset for some reason while we were headed back from the party. His usual relaxed demeanor had been replaced with a stiff attitude and a tight-lipped frown. Whatever his mother had said to him before Salama had dragged me over there clearly wasn't sitting with Rashid very well.

I didn't know if it was my place to ask him about it, though. I mean, we barely knew each other. Was it rude of me to get involved in family drama I clearly wasn't a part of? For all I knew, some disaster was going on that n