I Came Home After Four Years Working Abroad and Found My Wife Starving in Our Backyard—Then My Mother Asked About the Money I Hadn’t Told Her Was Fake

“Mom.”

“With what money?”

Selina cut in.

“Do not interrogate your brother.”

I turned toward her.

“I sent more than one hundred thousand dollars to this house.”

“And it paid for this house.”

“Some.”