"Your total is 50 million! You can be discharged, but it would be put on your credit!" the doctor said, even as he stared more at the pad in his hands than the bewildered looks on the faces of the four people in front of him.
"I would recommend paying up as soon as you can, especially since the new policy of the hospital has an interest fee attached to it the longer—" but this time around, the four people he had been speaking to didn't find a place in their hearts to listen and let him finish before the oldest among them erupted in anger.
"50! 50 million! Are you raving mad?"
"We spent just four days in this hospital and we're not even completely healed!" Luke barked in anger, even as June, sitting on her bed, lowered her head as she tried her best not to cry.
Oliver and Sarah, their children, had equally dark and stony expressions as they stared at the doctor.