I sacrificed my promising career as an architect, becoming a devoted stay-at-home dad so my brilliant, charismatic wife, Nicole, could chase her political dreams.
Our daughter, Lily, was my world, the only pure thing left in our gilded life.
Then I discovered Nicole was cheating with her ambitious campaign intern.
I tried to handle it quietly, discreetly reassigning the intern to a remote, terrible posting.
But Nicole' s reaction was ice: she retaliated by locking our beloved six-year-old Lily on our yacht, right as a massive storm rolled in, blackmailing me for the intern' s location.
Despite my desperate pleas, she abandoned our daughter to find her lover.
I raced to the marina, but it was too late. Lily's faint "Daddy!" scream was swallowed by the violent waves as the yacht capsized, taking my daughter with it.
Three days later, they found her tiny body.