Chapter 457

Dorothy found herself abandoned outside the hospital, her gaze locked on the relentlessly closing doors. A lock clicked into place, sealing off her hopes as she lay powerless on the cold ground.

Her heart swelled with frustration, cursed her helplessness, and loathed her inability to do anything in that critical moment.

In her relationship with Everett, Dorothy had always been the passive one, while Everett, the gallant hero, had always been the one to shield her from the storms of life.

As dusk turned to night, the sky darkened ominously.

The evening breeze grew stronger, carrying the earthy scent of an impending downpour.

Soon, the rumble of thunder rolled through the air!

Dorothy’s eyes remained fixed on those closed doors. They seemed to draw a clear line between two worlds.

No one could come out and she couldn’t go in.

Giant raindrops began to fall, driven by a biting wind, washing away the dried blood on Dorothy’s skin and soaking her thin clothes. Yet Dorothy stayed put, even mustering the strength to prop herself up, inching closer to the barrier that separated her from Everett

This was as close as she could get to him.

Time lost meaning, and the rain’s duration blurred into oblivion. Suddenly, the rain above her ceased.

Slowly, Dorothy looked up to find Kenneth standing beside her, shielding her with a vast black umbrella,

“Dorothy, let’s head back,” he urged.

“No… she croaked with her hoarse voice.

Everett

Mr.

words seared into Dorothy’s heart.

her, making it hard to breathe, tears

aware! But you’ve seen it yourself, even

become of Heather was not interesting to Kenneth. His sole concern was to persuade Dorothy

herself and return.

him here. As soon as I

reached to lift her he recoiled at the scorching heat of her fevered skin. “You’re burning up! Dorothy, you need to come back with

covered in wounds, and now drenched in the rain for so

“no” came out with undeniable clarity. “He hasn’t woken up

with this stubbornness? If not for

Chapter 458

mention of Abigail and Langston, Dorothy finally settled her gaze with

okay,

finger on her. With Karen watching over her, she didn’t even lose

about

his lips and didn’t answer immediately.

heart and grabbed his sleeve, urgent with worry, “Is Karen badly hurt? Did Heather do something to her?”

Heather had done to hersell, Dorothy was

that Karen had suffered

the one who got the worst of it, Dorothy Come back with me. Who knows how long

arrived, Everett was already deeply unconscious, being whisked away in an ambulance

headed inside the warehouse. Upon entering, the smell of blood hit him. Following the scent,

a sight that shook him to

hadn’t made it.

he held back Kevin, who was dealing with the aftermath, that he learned which hospital Everett had

ask about him as soon as she woke up

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