“Four hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

It’s frozen.

There’s an order on it with a case number.” Her voice was very controlled, which is what the resident testified to later: she wasn’t screaming, that’s the thing, she was completely level. “Who did you talk to?”

“I don’t — I don’t know what you’re—”

“You put me in a hospital bed in front of your mother—”

And then she stopped, because there were people in the doorway.

Maya came in first, which had not been the plan, and which she did on her own, and which Priya spent four months telling her not to talk about in front of anyone.