“Their temperatures reached one hundred and three point two degrees at eleven forty-seven p.m. while their father was away.”

“Did Mr.

Whitmore help get the medication?” Mrs.

Gable asked.

“He refused,” Doctor Miller said, his voice flat and precise.

“When Lauren asked him to pick up the prescription on his way home from dinner, he refused to buy the medicine.

I documented his refusal in the chart on December twenty-seventh, when she brought the babies to my clinic.”

Mrs.