“What’s it?” Rapha asks.

“Solely a number of million {dollars} directed to an offshore account belonging to an organization that doesn’t exist on any authorities’s books.” I search for at my uncle. “You piece of shit.”

He makes an attempt to rise from his chair, however Midnight and Eros maintain him down by the shoulders.

“Joe?” Ali says, nonetheless trying on the printout. “Did you steal from us?”

He doesn’t say a phrase till Raphael kicks his shin. “Please don’t make us drive you to speak. You gained’t take pleasure in it.”

Joe, nonetheless seething, lifts his head, specializing in my father. “You’re so weak, Salman. You have been simply going to just accept all of it. Thirty years we’ve devoted to our father’s imaginative and prescient, all so he can simply give it away to your son. Not mine, not Ali’s. Your… flighty son.”

I do know all too properly that flighty is code for homosexual. Anger rises like bile in my throat, however Rapha has his arms round me, holding me in place, so I lean into his presence for stability.

“I’m the oldest,” my father says. “It’s custom.”

“We’re nonetheless alive,” Joe spits. “What does Haven know? He failed as soon as. Are we supposed to take a seat again and let him destroy every part we constructed?”

“It’s what father needed, Joe. You realize I wasn’t pleased about it both.”

“However you wouldn’t do something,” he yells. “So I did. I took sufficient to verify I might survive, and sure, I meant to make a degree. It’s not my fault he stupidly walked into that constructing.”

“Sure it’s, you asshole. I wouldn’t have been there if it hadn’t been for you.”

“I’d quite die than watch you’re taking my livelihood from me,” Joe mutters.

“Perhaps we are able to prepare that,” I retort. I rub my brow. “Amir, Father, Ali, can we converse?”

The 4 of us step into the large lobby whereas Raphael stays with my mom.

“What would you prefer to have accomplished to him?” I ask. “I’ve my opinions.”

“That are?” my father asks.

“Urgent expenses would convey unflattering consideration to the enterprise and presumably fear our shoppers and companions, plus I can’t show what he did to me tonight until he confesses.”

Each males nod whereas Amir simply listens.

“I used to be considering perhaps he has to return the cash he took and, I don’t know, pay us some type of restitution. After all, he’s out of any enterprise dealings, however I’m open to listening to different concepts.”

“As a member of the family,” Amir says, “he’s entitled to lifetime revenue sharing as established by your grandfather. You would regulate that profit.”

I nod. “However that hurts his household too.”

“We might arrange a belief for his youngsters and guarantee he doesn’t have entry on any degree,” Amir suggests.

“Hmm. I like that.”

“I suggest a lifetime ban from utilizing the household title, any consumer relationships, or enterprise concepts,” Ali says. “That may handicap him tremendously.”

I nod. “Good. Anything?”

“He must pay for what he did to you tonight,” my father says. “Pay with greater than cash.”

“I don’t understand how we’d accomplish that with out involving the authorities.” I flip my head to see Rapha handing my mom a cup of tea. My coronary heart swells in my chest at his gentleness together with her. Solely I do know what’s hiding below his floor. Why is that so rattling sizzling?

“I’ve an concept,” my father says, his tone somber. “He’ll hate it.”

Ali’s expression lifts too. “Oh. If it’s what I’m considering, that’s genius.”

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