The Bottom Line: His Suffering

My husband Gabriel's affair with his young protégée, Kaia, had already cost me everything. Our marriage was a hollow shell, and his cruelty had even led to the miscarriage of our child, leaving me broken.

But the day he defended Kaia by slapping my ten-year-old niece, Bea, so hard he ruptured her eardrum, something inside me finally snapped for good.

He stood over her small, unconscious body and screamed, "She deserved it!"

He had already financially ruined my brother and now had brutalized a child-all to protect his mistress.

The man I had loved for sixteen years was a monster.