Chapter 30

• To say that this lunch felt like a funeral would be an understatement. Lia was just trying to keep her shoulders erect and her gaze only on that warm hand, which tucked hers on the table, and which, in a way, gave her the confidence to keep her head up.
• At the elegant table, there was Saeed's mother, his uncle Khalifa and that woman who did not stop looking at her for a single second. Her cousin.
• They were also accompanied by two ministers who were said to be re-elected this year, with the new restructuring of the Gurul that the Emir had proposed to his uncle and cousin.