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

Reply, Dorothy!

my parents’ place

left the ICU

scare me

I was in the ICU, so my phone was

said there’s no hope? Remember, if money can solve

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

was like a deity had

“Hello?

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

night. You’ll catch a cold.”

as icy as ever, and his deep eyes were focused

thought she was hallucinating out of despair.

Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still

Karen that she had something to deal with

Why are you here?”

you call for

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