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.”

Dorothy! Don’t do anything

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

the ICU to call Karen

scare me to death, you know!”.

sorry… I was in the ICU, so my phone was

if money

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

was like a deity had

Karen was calling out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why can’t

removing his coat and draping it around the frail Dorothy.

at night. You’ll catch a

icy as ever, and his deep eyes

she was hallucinating

Dorothy!” Karen was still talking on the other end.

Karen that she had something to deal with and

Why are

you call

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

realized she didn’t

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