Chapter 4

At St Anne's Hospital, Evelyn was welcomed with joy by both the staff and the patients. It had been several months since she left, and she was happy to be back.

A few moments later, the medical chief, Dr Andrews, called her to his office when he heard of her return.

"May I come in Sir", Evelyn said as she knocked twice before entering the chief's office.

"Hello, welcome back Dr Evelyn or Dr Wolf?" He asked, unsure what to call her.

"Whichever is fine by me, Sir," she replied.

"Okay, Dr Evelyn, it is. You can have your seat."

She thanked him as she took her seat. His office had not changed much, he still had the collections of sportswear signed by his favorite athletes decorated everywhere.

He would always tell his colleagues that if not because of his father, he would have been an athlete, and you could see that it might have been true, because of his lifestyle.

"How was the honeymoon, by the way?" Dr Andrews asked.

"Good. Fine"

"Okay," he said as he took out a cigar from his drawer and lit it.

"Sir, is there a reason why I am here?" Evelyn asked.

"Oh.Yes. I wanted to welcome you and also tell you that there have been frequent animal attacks this past few weeks" he puffed out the smoke and continued. " I just wanted to get your mind prepared. That's all"

Evelyn watched as he continued smoking like a vaping machine. She was not surprised but was just really amazed by how a doctor in his late 40s could partake in that kind of lifestyle.

Several times he had been queried by the hospital directors for smoking in patient rooms, and even bringing a cigar to the operation theater. If it was not that he was a very gifted neurosurgeon, he would have been sacked for his various misconducts.

"Thank you sir for telling me", Evelyn asked

"You can leave now."

"Okay sir", she stood up and headed for the door.

"Hold up. Why are you at work when you should be resting?"

She looked back and asked, "What do you mean Sir?"

"I meant you were not supposed to resume until a few weeks later."

"I just wanted to be here" she replied.

"Hope your husband is aware, and he agreed?"

"I don't think I need his permission to do something that I love" she answered with a high tone, beginning to get angry at his statement.

He raised his hands in surrender and said to her " I am sorry if I offended you. Was just curious"

"Yeah. Okay", she opened the door and walked out.

Dr Andrews was a gifted doctor, but he was a misogynist and that was his major flaw that caused people to dislike him.

She took the elevator down to the fifth floor where her office was, to change and get ready for the day's work.

Immediately she stepped out of the elevator, she was welcomed by her best friend.

Rebecca hugged her intensely."Evelyn, I have missed you a lot. How have you been?"

"I am fine. You look good". Evelyn told her "Don't tell me you've been waiting here for me."

"I heard you got called up to the Chief's office, and I was about to take the elevator to the 9th floor" she continued." My girl, you are way better than I look".

Rebecca held her friend's arm and they both went to Evelyn's office.

"I saw Michael outside. He said you guys had a little misunderstanding"

"Did he say that to you?" Evelyn asked as she took out the office keys from her bag to open the door.

Evelyn dropped her bag on the desk and sat on the chair while Rebecca sat in one of the visitors' seats across from her friend.

"Yes," she replied.

"He has always been very secretive about his family from the onset. He is hiding something, and I am curious about it."

"Well... Maybe there's a reason behind his silence?" Rebecca asked.

"He shouldn't be hiding things from his wife. All the talk about a ritual after the wedding ceremony and I know very little about it"

Evelyn noticed her friend's silence and asked "Are you alright?"

It was too much for Rebecca to keep lying to her friend, but she had no choice. Michael had promised to tell his wife about the supernatural world, and she just had to let him. If he fails to tell her, then she will reveal everything to her best friend.

"Yes, of course."

"You became very quiet when I mentioned the ritual", Evelyn said, staring at her friend.

"What do you mean? Ritual? What ritual?" Rebecca asked nervously.

"Do you know anything about the ritual in the Wolf family?"

Rebecca paused for a minute. "No I don't" she replied

"Your family is close to Michael's. So I thought you might know something about it"

"We are not that close. We just share a history and the Wolfs and the Knightons have been long-time business partners. That's all" Rebecca answered.

"I just..."

Evelyn was interrupted by the ringing of the telephone in her office.

"Hello," she answered the call,

"Hello, Dr Evelyn. This is Nurse Brady. Is Dr Rebecca there with you?"

"Yes, why?"

"There's an emergency. Both you and Dr Rebecca are needed urgently in the ER"

"Okay, we are on our way". Evelyn dropped the call and put on her coat.

"What is it?" Rebecca asked.

"We are needed in the emergency room," she said as she took her keys from the table.

They both rushed to the emergency room and saw that it was filled with injured people.

A doctor walked up to them. "Dr Evelyn, Dr Rebecca. Good morning"

"Good morning, Dr John" they both answered.

"There's been an accident. A bus with about 20 people crashed somewhere around the outskirts of town". He told them "Several of them were attacked by wild animals and some sustained slight injuries. Dr. Shaun asked for you in Theater 1"

"Alright, but what about patients here in the emergency room?"

"Their injuries are minor. The extreme ones are undergoing surgery as we speak", he told Evelyn.

"Okay. Let me go assist Dr Shaw."

"Well, what about me?" Rebecca asked.

"Oh sorry, Dr Bryan needs you in OR 2"

"Alright," she said as she left for the second operating room.

A few minutes later, Evelyn went to the operating theater. She washed her hands thoroughly and put on her scrubs before entering.

"Good Dr. Evelyn, you are finally here", Dr. Shaw said after seeing her enter the OR.

"What do you need me to do?" She asked.

"Collect the suction from nurse Linda. I need to stop the bleeding"

She collected the suction from the nurse and cleared the blood from the victim's stomach while Dr Shaw stitched the torn-out muscles in the victim's stomach. The surgery took several hours.

"There, we are done. Good job everyone" he said as he congratulated his team. " He is stable for now, so let us sew him up."

"Yes, Dr Shaw" one of the nurses present answered.

As soon as they began stitching his stomach, the man went into shock and his pressure began to spike. After a while, he had no heartbeat.

"What the hell just happened, but we stopped the bleeding", Dr. Shaw said as he checked for any ruptured blood vessels.

Evelyn told him "What if he has a concussion?"

"What?" He asked

"She must have had a concussion due to the accident," Evelyn told him.

A nurse took out the defibrillator and stuck the electrode pads on the patient's chest.

"Clear", Evelyn warned before each shock

"Go to the lab and get his CT scan, let us check if there's any sign of concussion or bleeding in his brain", the doctor told Nurse Linda.

Evelyn continued the cardioversion shortly, followed by CPR, but there still was no pulse.

"I need you to page Dr Andrews now. Seems like we are going to need his expertise ", Dr John told another nurse.

After a while, the patient was not responsive to the shock. "Stop Evelyn", Dr. Shaw told her.

"Hold on a little," she said as she continued with the CPR.

Dr Shaw checked his watch "Time of death. 12:09."

Shortly after, Dr Andrews entered the operating theater and saw that it was too late.

"We lost him, didn't we?" The chief surgeon asked Evelyn.

"Yes sir. We did". She said as she scrubbed out of the theater.