“What did he say?”
Malik repeated the conversation.
Amina’s expression changed.
“An unknown man is bringing your father home after he disappeared all morning, and we are supposed to wait without asking questions?”
“I don’t know what else to do.”
“Perhaps this is about the money I told you he was hiding.”
Malik said nothing.
But that afternoon, Amina searched the old man’s room.
Behind a stack of folded clothes, she discovered a small envelope containing a photograph of Baba Suleiman standing beside a younger man in front of a large building.
On the back, someone had written:
For the day you are ready to tell them the truth.
There was also a date from nearly two years earlier.
Amina’s heart began beating faster.
She turned the photograph over again.
The younger man wore an expensive suit and held a leather briefcase.
She did not recognize him.
