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!

going to my parents’ place to get the money.

quickly left the ICU to call

me to death, you know!”.

was in the ICU, so my phone was on

Who said there’s no hope? Remember, if money can solve the problem, it’s not a

eye, she spotted a tall figure appearing at

was like a deity had descended.

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

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

cold at night. You’ll catch a

as ever, and his deep eyes were focused

she was hallucinating out of despair.

that? Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still talking

quickly told Karen that she had something to deal with and

Why are you

call

instinctively smoothing her hair. “Yes,

came to it, Dorothy realized

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