After Heart Surgery, I Woke Up to Learn My Three Children Had Gone Home Because Hospital Parking Was Too Expensive. I Lay There in Tears Until a Well-Dressed Stranger Entered,

I was asleep.”

“Mr. Voss’s office in Bellevue closes at five,” Malcolm said quietly. “It’s a forty-minute drive in traffic. They left here at two-fifteen. The emergency petition has to be filed with King County Superior Court before the clerk’s office closes at four-thirty.”

I checked the wall clock. 3:47.

“They’re there right now,” I whispered.

“Probably,” Malcolm said.

The heart monitor started beeping so fast that Kayla came running back in.

“Mrs. Davis? Are you okay? Dr. Chen, her rate is…”

“I know,” Malcolm said. He was already