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.

“Dorothy, don’t worry: I’ve already called my parents. They agreed to lend you another 200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll piece it together bit by bit. 111 reach out to some other friends tomorrow; we’ll definitely reach our goal.”

scare me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do anything

City, and I’m going to my

the ICU to call

me

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

there’s no hope? Remember, if money can solve the problem, it’s

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

a deity had

Karen was calling out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why can’t I hear

towards her, removing his coat and draping it around the

at night. You’ll catch a cold.”

ever, and his deep

she was hallucinating out of

Karen was still talking on the other end.

something to deal with and

are you

call for me?”

dry lips, instinctively smoothing her hair. “Yes,

it came to it, Dorothy realized she didn’t

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