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

Reply, Dorothy!

to my parents’ place to get the money. We’ve raised 450k so far.”

quickly left the ICU to call Karen

were about to scare me to death,

sorry… I was in the ICU, so my phone was

there’s no hope? Remember, if money can solve the problem, it’s

she spotted a tall figure appearing at the other end of the long hospital

was like a deity

ear, Karen was calling out, “Hello?

coat and draping it around

night. You’ll catch

and his deep eyes

thought she was hallucinating out of despair.

Karen was still

that she had something

Why are you

you call for

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