Chapter 16
Brutal End, Bitter Inheritance
Uncle Amon is murdered. A fierce inheritance battle ensues. Grandmother claims his wealth, citing her money, but the first wife secures the entire estate.
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The air in the house, usually thick with the cloying scent of my grandmother’s potpourri and the faint, unsettling aroma of something I could never quite place, turned acrid. It was the smell of shock, of disbelief, of a world tilting on its axis. Uncle Amon, the man who had, in recent years, become the sun around which my grandmother’s universe revolved, was gone. Brutally gone. The news arrived like a physical blow, delivered in hushed, frantic
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