He hadn’t even asked what the doctors had found.
He wanted to stop everything.
Dr. Raman noticed my expression.
“Is something wrong?”
I showed her the message.
She read it without commenting.
Then Sadie whispered:
“Mom, there’s something else.”
I turned toward her.
“What, sweetheart?”
She looked toward the door.
“Before we left the clinic, Dad got a phone call. He thought I couldn’t hear him.”
Her voice dropped.
“He said, ‘If Paula finds out what happened to the insurance money, she’ll know why I can’t let this go any further.'”
I felt the blood drain from my face.
Insurance money?
What was Curtis talking about?
Part 4: The Question I Hadn’t Asked
Dr. Raman excused herself briefly to coordinate Sadie’s care.
I sat beside my daughter, trying to understand what she had just told me.
“Sadie, do you remember anything else from that phone call?”
She nodded slowly.
“He said something about a payment being overdue. Then he said he could fix it before you noticed.”
