I Came Home After Four Years Working Abroad and Found My Wife Starving in Our Backyard—Then My Mother Asked About the Money I Hadn’t Told Her Was Fake

“According to whom?”

“Doctors will always ask for more.”

Godfrey interrupted:

“You can’t blow a million dollars on treatments if the odds are bad.”

My hands tightened beneath the table.

“What odds?”

He hesitated.

“I don’t know.”