A 7-year-old daughter called her father crying, whispering, “Daddy… My back hurts. I can’t carry the baby anymore.” Rushing home, the father found her holding her 6-month-old brother while desperately cleaning up spilled milk on the kitchen floor. He didn’t scream at the tired child. Instead, he quietly walked to the living room and pulled up the security camera footage… and what he saw on the screen destroyed his marriage before dawn
and cryptographically preserved video footage? Those could not be explained away.
My marriage had just violently ended. Claire simply did not know it yet. But as I sat in the sterile waiting room waiting for her inevitable arrival, I knew the real war was only just beginning.
Chapter 3: The Trap is Set
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