“I can’t believe what I’m seeing… Olivia, what the hell is going on?” My voice barely reached her over the sound of our daughter’s giggles in the next room. There they were, my wife and the CEO, tangled together on her office couch. My heart stopped, my mind raced—and in my pocket, the $100 million lottery ticket burned like a ticking bomb. Was this my life ending or just beginning?
The lottery ticket burned a hole in my shirt pocket as I buckled my four-year-old daughter, Emma, into her car seat. $100 million. I had checked the numbers seventeen times across three different websites, and each time my hands shook so badly I could barely grip my phone. “Daddy, where are we going?” Emma asked,…