Victoria hurried into the warm living room with her hands trembling slightly.
Mark blocked the doorway with a firm and steady look on his face.
Mark: You are not walking away from this explanation, Victoria.
Victoria: Mark, you are making a massive scene over nothing at all.
Mark: My daughter was crying on the floor in her leg braces!
Victoria: She fell down on her own while trying to carry him!
Mark shook his head because he could hear the panic in her voice.
He stepped deeper into the room and closed the dark wooden door behind him.
Mark: Why did she say you threatened to lock them away?
Victoria gasped softly and pressed her hand against her slender neck.
Victoria: I never said such a cruel thing to our daughter!
Mark: She was terrified, Victoria. A child does not lie like that.
The room became completely silent for a few uncomfortable heavy moments.
Mark remembered how distant Victoria had acted over the past few weeks.
She spent long hours on her private phone locked inside her study upstairs.
She had asked him to sign legal papers regarding their children's trust fund.
Mark: What were you doing in the study late last night?
Victoria shifted her gaze away toward the large framed painting on the wall.
Victoria: I was working on my own personal finances, Mark.
Mark: Show me the documents you asked me to sign yesterday afternoon.
Victoria: Those papers are already sent to the family lawyer's office.
Mark pulled out his cell phone from his inner suit jacket pocket.
He dialed his family attorney while keeping his sharp eyes on his wife.
Mark: We will see what Arthur says about those documents right now.
Victoria stepped forward quickly and tried to grab the phone away from him.
Victoria: Do not call him on the weekend, Mark!
Mark stepped back calmly and held the phone close to his ear.
The lawyer answered on the third ring with a clear and calm voice.
Mark: Arthur, did Victoria send you custody and estate papers yesterday?
Arthur: Yes, Mark. She requested an emergency transfer of the inheritance account.
Mark felt his pulse racing as the unbelievable truth began to unfold clearly.
Mark: What transfer are you talking about, Arthur?
Arthur: She filed papers claiming you agreed to surrender full control to her.
Mark stared at Victoria with absolute disbelief and growing fury in his eyes.
Mark: I never signed any paper like that in my entire life.
Victoria sank down into a nearby leather armchair with her head down low.
She realized her carefully constructed scheme was falling apart completely right now.
Victoria: You were going to leave me anyway, Mark!
Mark: That gives you no right to terrorize our children for money!
He ended the phone call and walked back toward the open doorway.
He had to protect Emily and the baby before anything worse happened today.