Chapter 9
I was dumbfounded as I sat scribbling on a notepad while my lawyer and the team of three lawyers from Denver General bickered back and forth. The total of Lisa’s medical bills, for a botched surgery, came to well over $700,000, some that our insurance paid and a lot that I paid. If Rufus got his way – and it was starting to look like he might – all of it would be repaid apart from any other award. That alone made me feel more at ease.
Keeping to myself, even though I was seated right in the thick of things, I just listened as they carried on. True to his word, Rufus was my steady advocate. He looked to his left at me for confirmation frequently, but I just nodded and kept my face as unreadable as I could otherwise. I certainly didn’t want to give anything away and I didn’t want
