He tries to reconnect with his wife

Ed still loved his wife and he admitted to himself that he had put her through a lot. This was his chance to make amends to the woman he still loved and who had once loved him enough to declare to the world she wanted to spend her life with him. It had been him that built barriers between them due to his bitterness about his life choices, he had pushed her away rather than accept responsibility for himself and change with the times. There was no one he would rather share his good fortune with, no one who understood him like she did.

They had been best friends and lovers once before he had fucked it all up, she had once loved him when he was poor he could never trust whether anyone he met now loved him or his money. He knew the money he had won gave him a once in a generation chance to fix a broken life.

He decided to call her straightaway, his hand shook as he used the hotel phone to dial her once oh so familiar number.