Kiran and Reem acknowledged receiving funds without authorization; my mother admitted to concealing the statements.

Beckwith wrote in a clause allowing immediate prosecution if anyone broke the terms.

I asked her for a full copy of the file to keep — because I knew, with total certainty, that my mother would one day try to rewrite the whole story, and cast Amina as the villain who had torn the family apart, and I wanted the truth on paper for the day she tried.

Chapter 34 — Not Out of Anger

Amina refused to let us spend the recovered money in a rush.

“I don’t want a spending spree out of anger,” she said.