“You have no idea what you’re doing!”

“No,” I said, and I looked at him, this stranger.

“What I didn’t know was who I have been sleeping next to every night for all these years.”

Chapter 10 — The One I Swallowed

The doctor stepped to the door and motioned a nurse over, and his voice, when he spoke again, had turned to something with authority in it.

“This is going to require emergency surgery,” he said.