CHAPTER 3 — THE FIRST DOLLAR DISAPPEARS
On the morning of Day Twenty-Two...
Everything changed.
Without warning, transactions began flooding the account.
Ten thousand dollars.
Fifty thousand.
One hundred thousand.
Then two hundred thousand.
By noon...
Nearly half the money had vanished.
The palace erupted into panic.
"What is she buying?"
"Jewelry?"
"Property?"
"A private jet?"
Kareem refused to ask.
Instead, he watched the banking notifications appear one after another.
Construction firms.
Engineering companies.
Legal offices.
Historical archives.
International shipping.
Medical equipment suppliers.
None of it made sense.
That evening Omar arrived carrying six thick folders.
"I finally know where she's going."
Kareem opened the first file.
Blueprints.
The second.
Land surveys.
The third.
Ownership records dating back almost sixty years.
"What is all this?"
Omar swallowed.
"Your wife has been quietly buying every abandoned piece of land surrounding your late father's birthplace."
Kareem froze.
"No one even lives there."
"There is more."
Another folder.
Inside was an old black-and-white photograph.
A tiny village.
Children standing beside a dried-up well.
One little boy smiling barefoot.
Kareem stared.
His hands trembled.
It was him.
He hadn't seen that photograph since he was twelve years old.
"How did she find this?"
Omar shook his head.
"She refuses to explain."
By Day Twenty-Eight...
The account balance had dropped below twenty thousand dollars.
Then below five thousand.
Then below one hundred.
Finally...
Zero.
Exactly zero.
Every cent had disappeared.
The palace buzzed with anticipation.
Servants polished the grand courtroom.
Lawyers prepared divorce papers.
Everyone expected another humiliation.
But on the morning of the inspection...
Instead of bringing receipts...
Layla handed Kareem a single brass key.
He frowned.
"What is this?"
She smiled for the first time in thirty days.
"The answer to your test."
Kareem looked confused.
She turned toward the palace doors.
"Come with me."
"You deserve to see where every dollar went."
As helicopters lifted into the morning sky...
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No one inside the palace realized that by sunset...
The Sheikh's life—and the truth behind the strange test he had given every wife—would be changed forever.
