Soon he called Paige.

“I just want to know whether that doctor pressured her,” he said.

“She was vulnerable.

You cannot tell me an eighteen-year-old patient handing her inheritance to a physician doesn’t raise questions.”

Paige told me about the call rather than protecting me from it.

“He has a right to ask questions,” I said.

“He also has a history of asking them whenever money is involved,” she answered.

I wasn’t eager to defend my character in public.