Starting afresh

Recent news report the wife of the criminal who ran off with $10 million has filed for divorce to take over the care of the apartment and childrens' insurance. Wise move. So many people have been betrayed for their faith in the man's character, and no one more so than his wife.

I think to most people, if this event happened to them personally, they would have preferred sudden death of the person than such betrayal. I still cannot fathom how someone who has shown all signs of lovingness to his three daughters and wife, can just abandon them with such ruthless totality. Could greed alone surpassed all that? The situation so challenges your past beliefs about this man that you start to question your own judgement.

Integrity? Love? Faith? Truth? What about this person has truly been real in the past? One doesn't know anymore.
The only plausible theory that I can come up with to explain for his actions is he seized the chance to finally go off to live a life he has secretly wanted all along, forsake easily what had only been a cover, to live above scrutiny and beyond the public reach, given the $10 million to start all over. A life with another man...