What were they talking about? Malik couldn’t hear from that distance, but the conversation was short.
Shanaya quickly ended it and went inside the building.
That night Malik couldn’t sleep.
He thought about Shanaya, about how vulnerable she was to a man capable of such cruelty.
The thought that Mad Dog could hurt her was unbearable.
At dawn, Malik made a decision.
He would no longer just stand by and watch.
If Jamal was a threat to Shanaya, he had to do something.
But how? He couldn’t just walk up to her and warn her.
That would mean revealing his identity and his 10 years of betrayal.
With each passing day, Malik noticed that Jamal was becoming more insistent.
Now he regularly showed up at Shanaya’s house, sometimes even trying to talk to her.
Shanaya always responded with a polite refusal and hurried away, but Mad Dog didn’t give up.
