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 together bit by bit. 111 reach out to some other friends tomorrow; we’ll definitely reach

me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do anything

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

the ICU to call

were about to scare me to

sorry… I was in the ICU, so my

money can solve the

to respond, out of the corner of her eye, she

was like a

out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why

towards her, removing his coat and draping it

cold at night. You’ll

was as icy as ever, and his deep eyes

thought she was hallucinating out of despair.

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

she had something to deal with and

are

you call for

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