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.

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

Dorothy!

I’m going to my

ICU to call

to scare me to death, you know!”.

in the ICU, so my phone

hope? Remember, if money can

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

was like a deity

calling out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why can’t I hear

strode towards her, removing his coat and draping

at night. You’ll

voice was as icy as ever, and his deep

thought she was hallucinating

still talking on the other

quickly told Karen that she had something to deal with and

Why are you

call for

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