Chapter 61

The question came as a surprise to Aliyah, maybe he was still trying to make sure what he was seeing between them wasn't just some fabrication or deliberate act to deceive him.

That came out of nowhere and she was battling in her mind to think of the right answer she could give.

There was no right answer she could think of cause since she had come to know Ben this past few weeks, he was many things, many vile things, but she obviously couldn't say that.

That wasn't what the old man was waiting to hear, and saying such would destroy everything they had shown him, even the dumbest person would know that.

Aliyah searched in the world of her mind for one redeeming quality that he had that she could narrow upon.

'His unswerving dedication and determination to achieve his goals reached me, I guess' That was the first thing she thought to say about him but she scrapped up the answer and threw it in the bin of her mind.

Aliyah was going to have to think of a much more solid and convin