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Silence.

I continued.

“You told me six thousand was needed for Phoebe’s oncology.

Her clinic billed less than eight hundred.”

Selina stopped breathing for half a second.

Godfrey looked at her.

I continued:

“You said four thousand was needed before a treatment appointment.