20 The Surgeon

It was getting late and Anna needed to take her medication and sleep. She wanted to feel the reaction and see how she was going to wake up the next day after taking the first tablets. She went to bed and lay down. Took the medicine and looked at it keenly. “This here is the magic to a healthy life.” She smiled. Just after she took the tablets, she heard some movements in the basement. It was almost midnight and Steve was heading out. “Why so late?” She wondered. She wanted to go down and confront him but there was no point in doing so. She had bigger things to worry about like the disease that was in her slowly and mercilessly eating her up. Steve drove out as Anna slept only to be woken up by his return a few hours later. She didn't understand why Anna had to come back when she really didn't expect him home. She had already accepted fate and allowed him to continue cheating if that was what he wanted. Suddenly, the bedroom door was pushed open really hard