“If I’d paid the four-thousand-dollar hospital deductible, the bank would have taken my work trucks.”

“So you hid her diagnosis from me,” I said.

“I needed three weeks to land the Miller Street contract and collect the advance,” he said.

“I built that contracting business from scratch to provide for you and Hannah,” he said.

“You used her savings to rescue your trucks,” I said.

“It was just a temporary loan,” he said.

“I was going to put the money back the minute the Miller Street advance came through.”

“You told the clinic to remove my name from her file,” I said.