“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.

Laura sat on the very edge of the chair, her hands visible.

“I left their firm two months ago,” Laura said nervously.

“I thought that by quitting my job I would be protected from their illegal activity but I was not.”

“What did you find out when you were working there?” “Gabriel asked.

“I discovered that more than fifteen million dollars were filtered through fake vendor companies that existed only on paper,” Laura said.

“The corporate loans were secured with the signatures of people who didn’t know their names were being used.”