THEY HUMILIATED HIS PREGNANT EX-WIFE AT DINNER—THEN HER ONE PHONE CALL FROZE THEIR BILLION-DOLLAR EMPIRE

was guaranteed. He wrote Samuel letters every year, and Cassidy read each one before it reached their son. Some were messy. Some were self-justifying. But slowly, they became more honest.

By Samuel’s tenth birthday, Cassidy let him read the first one.

He sat at the kitchen island, legs swinging under the stool, reading in silence. When he finished, he continue reading …