Her father.
And beneath it, written in a different hand:
Payment received for surgical removal of projectile from Gideon Rook, age nine.
Rosalie looked from the document to the metallic object still visible inside Gideon’s ear.
If the projectile had been removed twenty-nine years ago…
what was still buried inside him?
Rosalie read the receipt three times.
Eachtime, the words became worse.
Payment received for surgical removal of projectile from Gideon Rook, age nine.
Her father’s signature curved underneath in the same elegant hand Rosalie had seen on household accounts,
