Reza Khalil

About

Reza Khalil has been Zayan's right hand for eleven years. He is loyal in the way that systems are loyal — reliably, structurally, until the conditions change. The conditions changed when Zayan brought a woman into the operation who could read the architecture as well as Reza could build it. What Reza is doing is not betrayal. In his own accounting, it is survival. He is not the first person to tell himself this.

Appears In

The Wrong Kind of Power

by Anonymous

She told herself it was information, not commitment. She told herself she was choosing with her eyes open. Six weeks into Zayan's Bangkok network, Anika Sharma is mapping vulnerabilities, dismantling inefficiencies, and discovering that the most dangerous thing in the room is not Zayan — it is the version of herself that is very good at this. Then she finds the fault line: someone inside the empire is making a play. Someone Zayan trusts completely. And Anika, the woman who was never supposed to be here, is the only one who can see it — which means she is also the only one they need to silence.

Quotes

She doesn't belong here.

Everything I've built — everything — and you handed it to someone who was in a villa six months ago.

I'm not betraying you. I'm protecting what you built from the thing that's going to break it.

Reza Khalil — Character from The Wrong Kind of Power | ReadRom

Reza Khalil