Chapter 24: Warm Shower, Cold Shower

---------- Years Prior, Samantha’s Apartment

Richard was soaked in water from head to toe. The local news channel had not predicted rainfall that day—less than thirty-percent chance, they had said, with zero chance of thunderstorms.

The man grumbled as he rushed from his car to the lobby of the apartment building, spouting every curse word he knew at the false predictions. He had been outside at a local development site for one of his new buildings when the rain clouds gathered.

The construction workers had told him that it was just passing clouds. But when they stayed for well over half an hour and it began to rain lightly, Richard had called it a day for the construction crew and sent them home early.