Chapter 26

The silence in the Farsi family's living room was heavy and suffocating. Members of the family stood frozen, eyes darting between the legendary Yusuf Saleh and the man they had always treated as a useless live-in son-in-law. Sana Khoury rubbed her eyes, convinced she was witnessing a hallucination. The ruthless figure who had once terrorized Wadi Al-Noor was now bowing his head, his posture shrinking in Tariq's presence. Layla Al-Farsi gripped the back of a chair, her knuckles turning white....