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.

200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll piece

me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t

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

ICU

scare me to death, you know!”.

sorry… I was in the ICU,

no hope? Remember, if money

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

was like a deity had

“Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why can’t I

strode towards her, removing his coat and draping it around

at night. You’ll catch a cold.”

icy as ever, and his deep eyes were focused on

thought she was hallucinating out of

that? Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still talking

that she had something to

are

call

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