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The mansion before him, its pristine facade gleaming under the midday sun, was
               purchased outright six years ago to mark his marriage to Samantha, his second wife. The
               occasion had been celebrated with grandeur befitting his lifestyle, yet it was tinged with
               echoes of a past he rarely revisits. His first marriage had ended abruptly more than 15

               years earlier when Laura, the mother of his children, Andrew and Iben, disappeared
               without warning, leaving only questions and a lingering emptiness.

               It was a seemingly ordinary Tuesday in the week leading up to Christmas. Jonathan had
               returned home late from work, weary from a day of meetings, to find a brief handwritten
               note on the cluttered dining table. Toys and baby paraphernalia were strewn about,
               reminders of a life that once felt chaotic yet whole.

               "Dear Jonathan, I can't do it anymore. I've moved."

               The words were stark, unadorned, and final. At the time, their children were just one and

               three years old, too young to understand the absence that would redefine their lives. As
               Jonathan stares at the driveway now, he wonders, not for the first time, how things might
               have been different if he had noticed the signs sooner.

                A tall, agile man with sharp eyes and a strong jawline, he prepares to drive to the harbor in
               Rungsted to sail his newly purchased yacht, a Princess 56. He has only sailed it once
               before. The white mansion, where he currently stands, was bought outright six years ago
               when he married Samantha, his second wife. His previous marriage ended over 15 years

               ago when Laura, the mother of Andrew and Iben, suddenly and unexpectedly left him and
               the children. On a fairly ordinary Tuesday in the week leading up to Christmas, he came
               home from work as usual, and on the dining table in their living room, among some toys
               and baby things, there was a short, handwritten note written on a small, almost
               inconspicuous piece of paper, the children was respectively one and three years old. At
               first, he thought it was a joke, but after a few days, when he and several others tried to
               contact her without success via her cell phone, through friends and her family, she was
               reported missing, and after a few more days, a letter appeared from Attorney Anderson &
               Kromann with a separation declaration with the intention of divorce.


                It had been a quick divorce, and it wasn't really a shock to him. A year after the divorce was
               finalized, he heard through the grapevine that Laura had moved to Australia, and a little
               later he found out that she had re married an Australian. After the divorce, he realized he
               was too young to be married and generally to commit to a long-term relationship. In the
               days and weeks that followed, he began to feel relieved that Laura had left, despite her
               divine beauty, intelligence, and the way she fit perfectly with both him and his family's
               ideals in many ways. He quickly embraced life as a bachelor and single father with rotating
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