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.”

scare me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t

you? I’m in Eldorria City, and I’m going to my parents’ place to get the money. We’ve raised 450k

left the ICU to call Karen

were about to scare me to death, you

I was in the ICU, so my phone

money can solve the

her eye, she spotted a tall figure appearing at the other end

a deity had

ear, Karen was calling out, “Hello? Dorothy!

towards her, removing his coat and draping

night. You’ll catch

was as icy as ever, and his deep eyes were focused on

was hallucinating out

Karen was still talking on

something to deal with

are you here?”

you call for me?”

lips, instinctively smoothing her hair. “Yes, I did… I needed to

to it, Dorothy realized she didn’t know what to say.

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