Chapter 13 - A Mysterious Wire Transfer Clears Every Medical Debt
The next morning, Khloe sat at her wobbly kitchen table drinking instant coffee in her drafty Quincy apartment.
Her phone chimed with an automated email notification from Massachusetts General Hospital’s billing portal.
She unlocked the screen with trembling fingers, clicking on the PDF statement attached to the message.
Her eyes widened in absolute disbelief as she stared at the glowing numbers on the digital invoice.
Balance Due: $0.00 (Paid in Full via Direct Electronic Wire Transfer).
“What... what is this?” Khloe whispered aloud to her empty, quiet kitchen walls.
She refreshed the page three times, thinking it was a clerical error or a cruel computer glitch.
The zero balance remained stubbornly, impossibly real, lifting a crushing eight-year weight off her shoulders.
There was only one person in Boston with the power and motive to make eighty-four thousand dollars vanish overnight.
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Dominic Costello had just bought her freedom without even asking for her permission first.
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