Chapter 38

The foyer of the Ghazi villa was packed, the air thick with the scent of expensive oud and the hushed, frantic murmurs of a family on the brink of a monumental shift. Every branch of the Ghazi lineage had gathered, their eyes fixed on the seat of power where Khalid Ghazi sat. The atmosphere was charged with a singular focus: the Malik Al-Hakam's coronation ceremony. The rumors had reached a fever pitch. The Malik Al-Gharb, the legendary commander-in-chief of the five armies dispatched from...