SAM
I was dead.
I had failed.
Stephi and the baby were alone.
I wasn't sure where my soul would go after death, but I wasn't expecting to be standing behind God's chair, his back to me.
I dropped to my knees, crying in pain.
"Please! Almighty One, please! Give me another chance!"
"Samael, my son, you have returned to me."
"Please! I can't leave them! Let me go back! I will relinquish all power if I must, I will give up everything, just let me go back to them."
"You will relinquish power? The thing you love most?"
"No! Stephi is what I love most. I will give up whatever you want me to. Just as long as I can go back to her."
"I brought you here for a reason, Samael. I have a deal for you."
"I'll take it, whatever it is, I'll take it if it means I can be with her."
I had never be
