I started making preparations without telling Jax what I was doing because I knew he'd try to stop me and insist I was being morbid when really I was just being practical.

I wrote letters to Rose and the grandchildren and even to potential great grandchildren I'd never meet explaining who I was and what I'd fought for and why it mattered.

"Dear Teresa" I wrote "By the time you read this I'll be gone and you'll be older I hope the world you're living in is even more peaceful than the one I'm ...