Another pause.
“What?”
“The hospital says the policy was terminated because the premium wasn’t paid.”
“That’s an administrative mistake.”
“Then why did Sadie hear you talking about insurance money?”
His voice hardened.
“Don’t interrogate me over the phone.”
I looked through the window into Sadie’s room.
My daughter was lying in a hospital bed with an IV in her arm.
“Your daughter is sick, Curtis.”
“I know.”
“Do you?”
He hung up.
I stood there for several seconds.
Then I called the insurance company.
The representative confirmed that the policy had been canceled because the monthly premiums had stopped arriving.
But something else appeared in the account history.
A payment had been made from our family account, then reversed.
The representative couldn’t explain why.
I asked for the cancellation notice and payment records.
She agreed to send them.
Then I called my sister, Megan.
She had always helped me understand financial paperwork because she worked in banking.
