Chapter 139

That fact surprised me, and even more so considering Haydar’s feline nature, his desire to dominate others, and his pride. But I was forgetting a small detail, one that Mirko had once mentioned: lions live in prides, like us. Everything made a little more sense. He had to have hidden allies in several countries; the logistics to cover the evidence of their activities should not be easy to organize. And if so, he must have communicated with them in some way, even while he was locked up.

It gave me a chill to think that their way of operating was quite similar to ours.

“Alhasan, you should be catching that beast,” I growled.

“Kabir is taking charge. I came to set you on your way,” the sheikh responded.

“On the way to where? Do you think I’m going to go with you somewhere, just like that?”

On the other end of the line, Kabir snorted again.

“Are you going to say no?” his tone was ironic. “You were the first one we thought of. That’s why we turned to o