“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.

Who did she mean?“I asked softly.

“Was she talking about me?”

Then what happened?

After she said that?Gabriel insisted.

I remembered, “Harold turned around and saw me standing there.

‘He asked if I needed any help and I told him I was just getting Maya’s stuffed toy.

He picked it up and gave it to me.”

“Did you see that blue ledger on his desk that day?“Dad enquired.