CHAPTER 13
Weeks later,
It's 11 p.m., Aliyah is alone in Khalan's suite. It was a huge space without him, she realized. He is currently away on a business trip but was due back in two days. While she was checking her e-mails, her thoughts were still wondering about him. "What the hell is happening to me? Why are you always in my mind lately, Khalan?" Aliyah said to herself, it seems like he was messing with in her world again, and she didn't like it.
Although Aliyah admitted, Khalan had been really good to her in the past few weeks, and in a way, it thawed a bit of her cold treatment of him. She was still unwilling to let go of her shield, it was her main source of protection and safety. She didn't want to risk being hurt again.
She realized something had changed between them, it was n
