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.

400k. We’ll piece it together bit by bit. 111 reach out

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

where are you? I’m in Eldorria City, and I’m going to my parents’

left the ICU to call

scare me

was in the ICU,

hope? Remember, if money can

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

a deity had descended.

“Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why can’t I

his coat and draping

at night. You’ll catch a

voice was as icy as ever, and his deep

thought she was

Karen was still talking on the

told Karen that she had something

are

you call for me?”

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