Chapter 83

How much pride to talk about someone who was as sick or sicker than him. It made me angry again. More than anything, because of the brutal speed with which everything fell into place. No wonder Luke suggested we communicate with the lions and gave us the means to do so; he already knew that the one who had visited him in his own house was one of the Al-Brahkhan. That’s why he talked about “making them see it as a commitment” if we contacted them. Because he already knew that Haydar was one of his own, a brother of Alhasan, and that at the mention of that, if we were smart enough to discover it, the Arab lions would not take long to react.

It’s a shame we discovered it so late.

“Excellent,” I murmured, and Álvaro grabbed me tightly by my injured shoulder to force me to turn around in a place that smelled of engine grease and dirt; it was the only thing I could decipher in the semi-darkness. My resentful flesh hurt and I let out a cry, annoyed: “You hurt me!”

“Oh, I