A Doctor Married His Passing Patient – But After Her Funeral, Her Sister Handed Him a Box and Said, 'She Wanted You to Have This Only After She Was Gone'

Nora backed away and pointed at me. "I'm reporting you to the hospital."

She walked away before I could answer.

    "Now I can see what you got out of it."

I stayed beside the car with the box open.

If the hospital believed I'd married a patient for her money, I could lose my job.

I wanted to run after Nora.

I also wanted to read that number again.

I put the lid back on before I did either.

    I could lose my job.

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That night, I entered the amount into my loan calculator.

The balance vanished.

I sat looking at the zero, imagining taking my parents out to dinner without checking what I'd have left afterward.

Then I closed the laptop. I needed to refuse while I could still make myself do it.

    The balance vanished.

The next morning, I called the lawyer and said I wanted to refuse the inheritance.