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.”

Reply, Dorothy! Don’t

you? I’m in Eldorria City, and I’m going to my parents’ place to get the money.

ICU to call

were about to scare me to

in the ICU, so my phone

despair. Who said there’s no hope? Remember, if money

Dorothy was about to respond, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a tall figure appearing at

a deity had descended.

“Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why can’t I hear you?”

coat and draping it around the frail

night. You’ll catch a cold.”

ever, and his deep eyes were focused on her.

momentarily thought she was hallucinating out

that? Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still

told Karen that she had something to

are you here?”

you call for

instinctively smoothing her hair. “Yes, I

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

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