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.

parents. They agreed to lend you another 200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll piece it together bit by bit.

scare me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do anything

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

left the ICU to

were about to scare me to death,

ICU, so my phone was

money can solve the problem, it’s not a

of her eye, she spotted a tall

was like a

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

removing his coat and draping it around

night. You’ll catch a cold.”

as icy as ever, and his

she was hallucinating out

Dorothy!” Karen was still talking on the other

had something to deal with and

are you

call for me?”

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