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.

already called my parents. They agreed to lend you another 200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll piece it

me! Reply, Dorothy!

going to my

the ICU to call

about to scare me to death, you

sorry… I was in the ICU,

despair. Who said there’s no hope? Remember, if money can solve the problem, it’s not a

out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a tall

like a deity had

“Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why can’t

removing his coat and draping it around the frail

at night. You’ll

was as icy as ever, and his

was hallucinating out of

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

something

are you here?”

call

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