SELENAS POV. “Pardon?” I asked as soon as I heard her words, and my heart hammered in my chest that it was a hell of a lot of money; worse still, I had barely a few hundred left with me. I drained the entire money I had into searching for martins without thinking twice. “That's a whole lot of money. It's a lot. How am I expected to raise that?” I asked. I wasn't certain if the doctor needed to be concerned for me, but seeing that my mother's life was in danger as I was as good as useless isn't helping matters a bit for me. “It's bad enough that she got here quite late; if she isn't operated on in a week, I'm sorry, but there isn't so much that I can do from my end, mam,” the doctor explained and made her way out. Never have I felt as bitter as I did at the moment. I couldn't even help