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.

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

Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do anything

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

quickly left the ICU

scare me to death, you know!”.

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

if money

of her eye, she spotted a tall figure appearing at the other end of the long

a deity

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

removing his coat and draping it around

at night. You’ll catch

ever, and his deep eyes were

was hallucinating out of despair.

Dorothy!” Karen was still

had something to deal with and hung up.

are you

call

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