He Let Our Baby Die Over a Hospital Bill novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: Investor Day
On the Tuesday before Investor Day, the laundromat closed at ten and we stayed.
The owner left the lights on over the back table and a fresh pot of coffee.
"Free," he said. "Don't get used to it."
Gina had borrowed her son's soccer stopwatch.
"One minute each," she said. "That's what a camera gives you. One minute, and the time on the clock. Go."
The mother from Lakewood went first.
She stood by the soap machine with her hands knotted together.
"My name is. Okay. I'm a mother. My son has seizures. One Friday, at 6:10 in the evening..."
She stopped. She looked at the floor.
"I can't do it in front of people."
"You're doing it in front of people right now," Gina said. "These are people. That's a dryer. It's a person, basically."
The Lakewood boy laughed into his tablet without looking up.
His mother laughed too, and started over.
Barely a minute.
The woman from Colorado Springs did hers even faster, dry-eyed, and that was worse.
Gina's neighbor did hers in her grocery store polo, because she said it made her feel official.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of He Let Our Baby Die Over a Hospital Bill are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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