Chapter 45
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
—Saint Ignatius of Loyola
1:200 p.m. GMT–8, July 15, 2022
Colma, California
He saved the world, and yet his world has just abruptly ended as the black SUV leaves the cemetery.
Seeing Peter needs his mother, Samantha comforts her oldest child in the only way she knows how. With a lick of her palm, she takes his hands into hers and says, “Lost your newest girlfriend, did you? She seemed like a real keeper too. You really blew that one, Peter. Didn’t I teach you to leash that curiosity? When a woman is in t
