When the Queen of Hearts had rewritten the narrative so that nobody knew Alex was "El Cucuy" and as a result, he never went to the middle east prior to his second fight with Vitor Borges. Alex initially thought that it was a serious detriment to the progress he had made with Aisha.
And while Aisha did not remember Alex, nor have the same affection rating she had for him prior to the reset. This change in the timeline had little effect on Ali's drug addiction. Who was an addict prior to Alex ever stepping foot in Saudi Arabia.
It was honestly only a matter of time before his habits were discovered by his fingers. As a result, and a chance of fate, Alex was now smuggling Aisha out of her home country, bringing her to exile in the United States of America.
She had, after all, fled from her father's guards, after getting into an enormous fight with the man over her fiancé and how much she did not want to marry him. Running away was one thing. Such information could be suppressed.