“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.

“Officer, what you just witnessed was a full confession to corporate fraud, evidence tampering, child endangerment and a felony physical assault,” Gabriel said with tremendous legal authority.

“I anticipate emergency arrest warrants being issued within the hour.

The policeman gave a stern nod.

“The detective team is already securing the arrest warrants based on the financial documents and Ms.

Croft’s affidavit.”

Dad looked at Gabriel.

“We need to get the physical ledger out of the garage chest now.”

“I’ve got two officers standing by at the residence right now,” the officer assured us.