The Surgeon's Ghost
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."
My father seemed to collapse in on himself. He closed his eyes, and for a long moment, he was silent. When he finally spoke, his voice was raw and gravelly, as though he'd just made an impossible decision.
"I'll take you to Samuel. But you have to save his mother first."
Adeline let out a mocking laugh and gave a curt nod. "If you'd said that from the start, I wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble."
Following my father's directions, the cars wound through twisting back roads until they reached a desolate graveyard.