The Daughter They Abandoned Is the Doctor They Can't Reach novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: Terms

On Tuesday the hospital's social worker lent us a conference room on the second floor.

It had a long table, a box of tissues in the middle, and a window that looked at the parking structure.

My father was brought in by a volunteer in a wheelchair, in a gray sweater my mother had picked out, with a plastic bracelet still on his wrist.

My mother sat beside him.

Faye took the seat at the end of the table, a folder in front of her, and I sat across from my parents.

I had the notebook open to the clean page.

"I asked you here to say some things once," I said. "I won't say them twice."

My father looked at the table.

He was thinner than he'd been on Thursday, and his voice, when he used it, was smaller.

"Ingrid, I moved here to be close to you."

"You moved to where I live. That isn't the same."

"I'm sixty years old. I've had a heart attack. I've paid for my mistakes."

"You've paid some of them," Faye said gently. "I'll tell you the amount, if you've forgotten."

He flushed.

I read from the page.

"First. The sixty-four thousand dollars left on your repayment schedule to Faye is paid in full. A fixed amount on the first of every month, through the bank, with nothing missed. Faye's lawyer verifies it. If a month is missed, she goes back to the first road."

"I can't afford..."

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