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.

don’t worry: I’ve already called my parents. They agreed to lend you another 200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll

Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do

to my parents’ place to get

ICU to call Karen back.

to scare me to death, you know!”.

in the ICU, so my phone was on silent.”

if money

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

like a deity

calling out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello?

towards her, removing his coat and

at night. You’ll catch

ever, and his deep eyes were focused on

she was hallucinating

Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still talking

something to deal with and hung up.

are you

call for me?”

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