Victoria: You hit me, David! You assaulted your lawful wife in front of a common housemaid!
David: Officer Davis, get those steel cuffs locked around her wrists right now!
Officer Davis: Hands behind your back, ma'am. Stop resisting.
Victoria: Get your filthy hands off my dress! Do you have any idea how much this green gown costs?!
David: You are not my wife, Victoria. You never were.
Victoria: We were married at the cathedral six months ago in front of four hundred people!
David: A wedding built on forged documents, bigamy, and corporate blackmail.
Toby clung to Clara's neck, his small face buried against her shoulder as he sobbed uncontrollably.
Toby: Daddy... My shoulder hurts so bad! She pushed me with both hands!
David: Let Daddy look at you, buddy. Come here to me.
David knelt on the marble step, his hands shaking as he gently pulled back the boy's shirt sleeve.
A deep purple bruise was already swelling across the child's small collarbone and shoulder blade.
David: God in heaven... Clara, did you see the push happen?
Clara: I was dusting the mirrors in the lower hall, Mr. Sterling. I looked up and saw her shove him with all her weight.
Victoria: That maid is lying through her teeth, David! She hates me because I told her she was lazy!
Clara: I dove across five stone steps to catch his head before it hit the floor tiles!
Victoria: The boy was running! He tripped on his own long shoelaces!
Toby: I was standing completely still, Daddy! I had my toy train in my hand!
David looked down at the fifth step, where the red wooden toy train lay cracked in two pieces.
David: His shoes have double knots, Victoria. I tied them myself before I left for the courthouse.
Victoria: Then Clara bumped into him while carrying her cleaning bucket! She's covering her own mistake!
Clara: My cleaning bucket is still sitting by the front door, Victoria. Look for yourself.
David: Clara saved my son's life today. And you tried to break his neck.
Victoria: You can't prove a single thing, David! No court will take the word of a servant over mine!
David: My late wife Clara didn't trust you, Victoria. And neither did I.
Victoria: Clara died two years ago! Stop bringing up that dead woman's name in my mansion!
David: This is not your mansion. Every brick belongs to Toby's inheritance trust fund.
Victoria: As your legal spouse, I am entitled to half of this entire estate under Texas community property law!
David: You don't have a legal spouse, Victoria. Because you never divorced your first husband in Miami.
Victoria's smug smirk stiffened into stone, her eyes darting between David and the two armed officers.
Victoria: Mark signed the Florida divorce papers four years ago! He promised me the county registry was cleared!
David: Mark never filed those papers, Victoria. He kept the marriage certificate to blackmail your father for cash.
Victoria: That lying little coward... He swore on his life that the record was wiped clean!
David: Mark handed the original marriage license to the federal district attorney two hours ago in exchange for full immunity.
Victoria took a frantic step backward, her heels clicking against the marble riser.
Victoria: What does the federal attorney have to do with my personal life?!
David: It has everything to do with the forty million dollars your father siphoned out of my company.
The green sequins on Victoria's gown shivered as the color drained completely from her cheeks.