My husband pushed me down the stairs, and as I lay shattered at the bottom, my mother-in-law called my father and said, “Come get your worthless daughter and take her back.” Dad gave her only one warning: “If she has so much as a scratch, your family will answer for it.” They laughed at him because they had absolutely no idea who my father truly was.
“Mr.
Callahan, did you personally see your wife lose her footing?”
He hesitated.
“I heard her fall.
I was just around the corner.”
“Your signed affidavit says you watched her slip.”
“I meant that I saw the end of it.”
Celeste shifted so sharply that her bracelet struck the wooden rail.