Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile #2)

by Isabel Ibañez

but Mr. Sterling had switched his speech pattern. He no longer spoke in a loud, bombastic way.

Mr. Sterling became a man I had loved all my life.

we each had our secret reason for why we didn’t want you to come to Egypt. Your mother didn’t want you to see who she really was—an adulteress, a thief.

“Whose daughter are you? Mine or someone else’s?

“It’s simple, Inez,” he whispered close to my ear. “I’ve built an empire, and I didn’t know if I could give you the keys to my kingdom.”

You are the love of my life, and I will not lose you now.”

Her journal was filled with pages about Tío Ricardo and how she feared for her safety, worried about his criminal associations. She really had been writing about my father the whole time.

I knew he was thinking of when he’d overheard Sir Evelyn hiring a spy to observe my uncle’s and Abdullah’s movements. Up until now, we had narrowed it down to who he might have used.