“Come get your worthless daughter and take her back,” my mother-in-law shouted my father as I lay broken at the bottom of the stairs after my husband shoved me down. “Your family will answer for it if she has even a scratch,” was the sole warning Dad offered her. They had no notion who my father really was, so they made fun of him.

My heart started to pound.

“What blue room Maya?”“Please,” I said.

“Grandpa’s office in their big house is green but Grandma’s room in our house is blue,” Maya innocently explained.

Dad caught on immediately.

“You mean the blue guest room office at your house.”

“Which papers did she want him to get?asked Maya.

“I do not know,” Maya said truthfully.

Daddy went upstairs straight away.