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.

my parents. They agreed to lend you another 200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll piece it together bit by bit. 111 reach

Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do

in Eldorria City, and I’m going to my parents’ place to get

the ICU to call

to scare me to death, you

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

if money can solve the problem, it’s not

respond, out of the corner of her eye, she

a

out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why

towards her, removing his coat and draping it around the frail Dorothy.

night. You’ll catch

ever, and his deep eyes were

momentarily thought she was hallucinating

Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still

she had something to deal

are you

you call for me?”

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