He Let Our Baby Die Over a Hospital Bill novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: The Storefront
The storefront was four blocks up Federal from the laundromat, between a nail salon and a place that fixed phones.
It had been a dentist's office once. There was still a poster of a smiling tooth in the bathroom.
I signed the lease on the first Monday in March.
The landlord wanted first month, last month and a deposit.
I paid it out of the cashier's check Kaylin had handed me on the courthouse steps.
Eleven thousand six hundred dollars, the baby fund, every cent of it.
I stood in the empty room afterward with the keys in my hand.
"She paid the deposit," I said out loud, to nobody.
The divorce had been final since December. The judge had read the reconciliation clause, taken off her glasses and struck it.
On the Friday before the opening, Gina walked into the basement billing office at the county hospital and put her lanyard on her manager's desk.
She called me from the parking lot afterward, screaming.
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