Chapter 10

But the voice on the other end wasn’t Everett’s. It was his assistant returning the call.

Dorothy felt a tad bummed, but she still gave it a try. “I’m Dorothy Sanchez. A classmate of Mr. Lopez. Could you please relay a message to him? I’d like him to call me back.”

“Alright, Ms. Sanchez. Is there anything else?”

“No, thank you.”

After hanging up, she suddenly felt a twinge of understanding towards her mother’s desperate leap from the building.

When you’re backed into a comer by all sorts of unexpected events, you really just feel like throwing in the towel.

The hospital was frigid.

By the wee hours, Dorothy jolted awake on the patient’s chair, realizing she had dozed off out of sheer exhaustion.

She checked on her sleeping mother and tucked her in.

Her phone was flooded with messages from Karen.

“Dorothy, don’t worry: I’ve already called my parents. They agreed to lend you another 200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll piece it together bit by bit. 111 reach out to some other friends tomorrow; we’ll definitely reach our goal.”

me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do anything stupid”

City, and I’m going to my parents’ place

quickly left the ICU

about to scare me

ICU, so my phone

hope? Remember, if money can solve the

to respond, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted

a deity had

out, “Hello? Dorothy!

coat and draping

at night. You’ll catch

ever, and his deep eyes were focused on her.

thought she was hallucinating out

Dorothy!” Karen was still talking on the other

Karen that she had something

Why are

call

her hair. “Yes, I did… I needed to see you”

it came to it, Dorothy realized she didn’t

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