“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.

“The Sutter Construction Group, your husband’s family business, has been under investigation for two years,” Gabriel said.

Investigated for what?I asked.

“Undisclosed financial transfers, false vendor invoices, money laundering through shell companies,” Gabriel listed.

Between Gabriel and my father I looked shocked.

What does a corporate investigation have to do with my custody battle?”I demanded.

“Your name appears on a number of fraudulent liability documents,” Gabriel dropped the bomb.

My pulse began to thump in my chest.

Why would my name be on their corporate documents?I gasped.