Dr. Hayes looked at me.
“Some were.”
“But not all.”
“No.”
I hated that answer because it was honest.
Mark had been dying.
Mark had been frightened.
Mark had discovered a child he never knew existed.
And Mark had still lied to me.
Two truths could occupy the same room.
PART 7
The next page was different.
There were bank records.
Rebecca had demanded $180,000.
Not for Noah’s hospital bills.
Mark had checked.
Many of Noah’s major medical expenses were already being handled through
insurance and assistance programs.
Rebecca wanted cash.
She claimed she needed it to relocate Noah.
Mark became suspicious.
So he hired an attorney.
Quietly.
PART 8
That attorney was Daniel Ross.
His number was written at the bottom of the page.
I called from the hospital corridor.
He answered immediately.
“Mrs. Carter?”
“How do you know who I am?”
Silence.
Then:
“Mark told me you might call.”
