Chapter 36It was two in the morning when I heard Khalid shout: “Don’t move. There is someone observing us near the gazebo. I saw him slip out of the shadows a moment ago.”
I was out of bed and staring at my laptop screen in a matter of seconds. He went through the terrace doors and came back a moment later with his knife held lightly in the palm of his right hand, blade upward against his wrist. He was intent and yet nonchalant in his movements. He went to rest his elbows on the balcony railing, his back to her.
A couple or three seconds passed and all at once, I heard the blade thud against something, and someone swear. Khalid had not waited to see the result of his throw for he was already out of the room and appeared on the grounds below the balcony in what seemed to be a lightning i
