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.

have 400k. We’ll piece it together bit

me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do anything

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

left the ICU to call Karen

me to

I was in the ICU,

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

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

was like a

was calling out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why

his coat and

night. You’ll catch

icy as ever, and his deep eyes were focused on her.

was hallucinating out of despair.

that? Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still

she had something to deal with and hung up.

Why are you

call

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