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.

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

Dorothy! Don’t do

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

left the ICU to call Karen back.

were about to scare me

the ICU, so my phone

money can solve the problem, it’s

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

like a deity had

out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello?

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

cold at night. You’ll catch a

ever, and his deep eyes were

momentarily thought she was hallucinating

Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still talking on the other end.

quickly told Karen that she had something to

are

you call

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