Chapter 9

She thought about what Everett had said to her..

He said he could cover her mom’s medical bills and even find her the best doctor.

Now, this was her only option.

Dorothy started frantically searching for her middle school classmates’ phone numbers like a madwoman. Thankfully, she found one and begged him to add her back to the WhatsApp group. But to her shock, after she left the group, so did Everett.

“Can anyone get in touch with Everett now?”

She quickly sent a message in the group, not caring about the gossip that might follow.

Soon, her classmate Mason replied, “Eh? Wasn’t he in the group before? I saw him just a few days ago. Why did he leave?”

“Isn’t it normal for him to leave? He’s now the CEO of the Lopez Corporation. His life is way different than ours; he’s got nothing to chat about with us common folks.”

to how sour

started to stray from the topic, and Dorothy’s

another plan, someone in the group mentioned

I have Everett’s phone number. I haven’t contacted him for years, though, so I’m not sure if he’s changed his number.

school class president. He quickly sent her the number in

she had

voice. “Hello, the number you have dialed

her face, waking her up instantly. She

she doing?

taking Everett seriously?

to her because he had

Now she couldn’t even see him, and she actually fantasized that after rejecting him, he would still agree to help her.

the phone and went back to

mother was so quiet that it scared her. She didn’t know if she was asleep

data and whispered to Dorothy, “Have you decided? Are

can I pay the money in installments to the hospital?”

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