Broodmother

The spirit was translucent and blurry, but Ethan could still make out who it was.

It was Jade Taylor—the very woman who had driven him to buy out the gym and fire her in a fit of anger.

No matter how hard he tried to wrap his head around it, he never imagined he'd see her again like this, two months later.

She was no longer human. She was a spirit.

Which meant she was dead.

How had she died?

"If she's destroyed, those four in the hospital are done for too." Ryan muttered from behind Ethan.

Everyone turned to him, puzzled. He continued, "I miscalculated. She wasn't raising the Ghost Parasites. She was the parasite. Someone turned her into a Broodmother.