Chapter 8

[September 2021, India]

Zayed was standing leaning onto the first car in which Ameya was already seated. He was waiting for Aveline to come out of the airport.

They had landed in India an hour ago, but they couldn’t land in the airport they had initially planned to, because of some weather conditions.

So, now they will have to travel by road to reach Delhi, where they are to meet the Malhotras.

As he turned around to talk to the driver, he saw a flash of yellow dashing to what she assumed to be the relative safety of the second car.

He allowed himself a smile as he finished what he wanted to say to the driver, before closing the door and striding towards it himself.

Shock turned her hazel brown eyes wide as he slid into the seat alongside her. A moment later she turned both her face and body away, shrinking against the door as if she might will herself right through it, and his feeling of satisfaction deepened.

She was terrified of him.