“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.

What were you doing with this woman when you came in?” said Gabriel.

“They were speaking in low murmurings but went quiet as soon as I entered,” I recalled.

“Do you remember any particular words they said?Asked Dad.

I closed my eyes tight remembering that office with its smell of old paper and wood polish.

Harold had said “The original document, it’s still in this safe.

“Not one exception.”

The scarred woman had answered, “Then she needs to remember what she signed.

I opened my eyes and looked straight at my father.