Mark walked back into the bright decorated dining room slowly.
He wrapped his long strong arms around Sarah and Emma.
Sarah rested her forehead against his shoulder and sighed deeply.
Sarah: I was so scared when she reached for her.
Mark: She will never step foot near our child again.
Sarah: Why was she so aggressive from the moment she arrived?
Mark: She wanted to provoke us into doing something drastic.
Mark walked over to Clara's abandoned leather handbag on the floor.
She had dropped it when she grabbed her thick coat.
Mark opened the bag to search for her house keys.
He wanted to make sure she could not return later.
Instead, his fingers touched a thick stack of white papers.
He pulled out a legal document with official court stamps.
Sarah stepped closer to read the large black printed words.
It was a fraudulent legal claim on their family home.
Clara had hired a lawyer to take away their mortgage.
She planned to claim Mark was mentally unfit to hold property.
Sarah: She was trying to ruin our entire life behind us!
Mark: She planned to use any argument today as legal proof.
Sarah: She intentionally provoked us to build a fake case!
Mark's phone rang loudly on the wooden kitchen counter then.
He picked it up and saw his lawyer's name flashing.
Mark: Hello, David, did you check those records yet?
Lawyer: Mark, you need to be very careful around Clara.
Mark: We just threw her out of our house right now.
Lawyer: Good, because she filed a false custody report today.
Mark's heart sank into his stomach with sharp painful shock.
Clara wanted to use child services to steal little Emma.
She hoped to gain control of the trust fund money.
The inheritance left by Mark's grandfather belonged to Emma entirely.
Clara could only touch it if Emma lacked proper parents.
Sarah gasped in terror as Mark repeated the lawyer's words.