Part 2: My son h.i.t me 30 times in front of his wife… so the next morning, while he sat in his office, I sold the house he thought was his.

The picture had been taken eleven days earlier.

Eleven days before Trevor struck me thirty times because I refused to transfer the River Oaks property into his name.

My stomach tightened.

"How long has this been happening?"

Detective Grant sat across from me.

"We're still establishing that, Mrs. Sutter."

I studied the bank transfer.

**$6,000,000 — CEDARLINE CAPITAL OPERATING ACCOUNT.**

The receiving account belonged to a company I'd never heard of.

**ASHCROFT DEVELOPMENT GROUP.**

I looked at my attorney, Daniel Pierce.

"Find out who owns it."

Daniel nodded.

"Already working on it."

My hands began trembling.

I had spent forty years building something I hoped would outlive me.

And apparently, the people closest to me had been quietly dismantling it.

***

My name is Gloria Sutter.

I'm seventy-one years old.

I founded Cedarline Capital with my husband, Henry, when I was thirty.

We started with two small rental properties and a secondhand desk in the spare bedroom.