“You brought them to urgent care on the morning of December twenty-sixth?” he asked.

“Yes,” I said.

“Their temperatures hit one hundred and two.”

“And do you have the pharmacy receipt from Christmas Eve?” Doctor Miller asked.

“There’s no receipt,” I said.

“Cole refused to buy the medicine before he left.”

Doctor Miller adjusted his lamp and checked Noah’s right ear canal again.

“The infection in Noah’s left ear has spread into the middle ear,” Doctor Miller said.