Taken aback by his son's unexpected homecoming, the Sheik attempted to console him.
He tried to explain that Emily Moore wasn't Shayah's replacement nor her murderer, but Ahziz wouldn't hear it.
Prince Ahziz had spent years creating a mental story in which he believed his father had chosen another woman over his mother and that she had been deceived.
He saw Emily as an appropriator who had stolen all his mother had ever valued.
Prince Ahziz's emotions became uncontrollable as the altercation intensified. "She took my mother's place! You allowed her to enter this palace like my mother didn't matter." His remarks were poisonous.
But his anger was also stoked by the growing suspicion that the woman had played some role in his mother's demise, in addition to his father's betrayal.
