Chapter 19

Jonathan Eighteen years ago, I was the happiest man alive. I was married to the only woman I’d ever come to love for two years and together we’d given birth to a beautiful daughter; Alena. My wife, Julia was truly everything. She was beautiful, friendly, a good cook and all. Being married to her seemed to have been my reward for enduring so much in life. I’d lost my job here in Australia so we were barely hanging on but my wife found a job in New York as a prosecutor. I was proud of her and didn’t want her to pass up this opportunity because it’d always been her dream. Despite the distance, we always made sure to meet physically whenever it was Alena’s birthday. When Alena was 15, wed decided to give Julia a surprise visit and to my horror that was when I’d come to know that Julia was cheating on me. Rather than feeling sorry, Julia had me hand me with a divorce. We’d been divorced now for over three years but druing that period was the hardest time of my life because I was still hung