I Bet My Wife and Child on a Hand of Cards

Summary

The night my wife tried to drown herself in the river, they pulled her out naked and shivering.

"Jack… I'm so sorry," she sobbed, her body wracked with cold. "I gambled it all away."

I stripped off my coat and wrapped it around her, my fury a furnace inside my chest.

"You're going to put our daughter on the table," I said, my voice dangerously calm. "And you're going to win it all back."