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.

lend you another 200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll piece it together bit by bit. 111 reach out to some other

me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do anything stupid”

going to my

ICU to call Karen

scare me to death,

the ICU, so my phone was on silent.”

despair. Who said there’s no hope? Remember, if money can solve the problem, it’s not a problem.”

her eye, she spotted a tall figure appearing at

a deity had

calling out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why

removing his coat and draping it around the frail Dorothy.

night. You’ll catch a

voice was as icy as ever, and

momentarily thought she was

Karen was still talking on the

that she had something to deal with

Why are you

call for

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