The Surgeon's Ghost
I stared at her, this woman so different from the one I remembered, and felt utterly lost.
Was this really the woman I had loved all those years?
"Carrie!"
A sharp, anguished cry cut through the air from inside the car—it was my father. He had just watched the love of his life, his wife of decades, lying in a pool of blood. Grief overtook him, and he struggled to break free from the car, but his captors held him in place.
Adeline's face twisted into a sinister smile. Through the car window, she said in a low, cold voice, "Tell Samuel to come out right now and perform the surgery—or his mother won't make it."