The Intrusion

Summary

I returned to the world ten years after I died.

I reappeared just in time to see Claire Ashton—the woman I loved—finally letting me go. She was marrying Sam, the assistant who had been by her side for years.

My parents were in the front row, weeping with joy.

My sister, Sarah, stood next to the groom, smiling, watching them exchange vows.

And then I walked in.

My arrival was a match thrown on gasoline. The joy evaporated. Claire, my Claire, let go of her new husband’s hand and lunged at me, her fingers digging into my wrist like claws.

“Where have you been?”