The CEO's Hidden Love: Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires novel 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 corner 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. I'll reach out to some other friends tomorrow; we'll definitely reach our goal.”

“Don't scare me! Reply, Dorothy! Don't do anything stupid!”

“Dorothy, where are you? I'm in Eldorria City, and I'm going to my parents' place to get the money. We've raised 450k so far.”

Dorothy quickly left the ICU to call Karen back.

“You were about to scare me to death, you know!”

“I'm sorry... I was in the ICU, so my phone was on silent.”

“Don't despair. Who said there's no hope? Remember, if money can solve the problem, it's not a problem.”

Just as Dorothy was about to respond, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a tall figure appearing at the other end of the long hospital hallway.

It was like a deity had descended.