Stars In The Snow

In order to save his crush, Zach Clark bought a dismembered female torso from the black market.

He personally removed the kidney from the torso for his crush’s kidney transplant.

To prevent the police from chasing him down, he threw the torso into sulphuric acid to destroy the evidence.

But he did not know that the torso belonged to me.

When my body was placed on the simple operating table, it was still warm.

Not that anyone cared, of course.

With a surgical knife in hand, Zach Clark slowly but meticulously cut open my chest, and then, he was puzzled.

“Huh? Why is there only one kidney?”

But he soon resumed what he was doing. His movements were sure and smooth. As expected of the top nephrologist in the city.

Some moments later, he removed a bloody kidney from my body and placed it on a uniquely-shaped instrument.

“Send it to the hospital and have the staff perform the kidney transplant for Catherine immediately.”

Gale Queen, Zach’s best friend, stared at the torso on the operating table and asked, “What about the woman’s body? Even though she only had a torso left when we bought her, it still feels weird to keep her around. Should we call the police?”

Zach just washed off the blood on his hands and did not even spare the torso a look. He said in his usual nonchalant tone, “Just destroy it. We don’t want any accidents happening.”