“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.

“It says Sutter Capital Enterprises,” Gabriel read.

“I never heard that name in my life,” I told him.

“That was all deliberate,” Gabriel said dryly.

A sickening chill spread through me from my shoulders to my fingertips.

“My husband used to do all our household taxes,” I said aloud.

“He said his family accountant did all the complicated financial stuff for us”.

Gabriel looked at me with such compassion in his eyes.

“Has your husband ever made you sign papers, and you didn’t know what they were?Gabriel asked. “