Chapter 457
Chapter 457
Dorothy found herself abandoned outside the hospital, her gaze locked on the relentlessly closing
doors. A lock clicked into ce, sealing off her hopes as shey 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 rtionship with Everett, Dorothy had always been the passive one, while Everett, the gant
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 coulde 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 Keh standing beside her, shielding her with a vast ck umbre,
“Dorothy, let’s head back,” he urged.
“No… she croaked with her hoarse voice.
Keh crouched, gently wiping the rain from her cheeks with the corner of his jacket. “Don’t you see?
Every time you and Everette close, disaster follows! Without him, your life might be dull, but at
least it’s stable. Without you, he’d still be the
untouchable and proud Mr. Everett Lopez!”
His words seared into Dorothy’s heart.
A sudden pain clutched her chest, as if a heavy stone was crushing her, making it hard to breathe,
tears streaming uncontrobly. “I never meant to hurt him…” She would rather be the one dying!
“Yes, I know, and even Everett’s parents are aware! But you’ve seen it yourself, even after what
Heather did, the Lopez family didn’t choose to ept you.”
What would be of Heather was not interesting to Keh. His sole concern was to persuade
Dorothy to stop torturing
herself and return.
“Keh, just let me wait for him here. As soon as I know he’s alive, I’ll leave.”
Dorothy was running on fumes, both mentally and physically, clinging desperately to the hope of seeing
Everett again. Keh positioned the umbre over her. As he reached to lift her he recoiled at the
scorching heat of her fevered skin. “You’re burning up! Dorothy, you need toe back with me now!”
She had just undergone surgery and was covered in wounds, and now drenched in the rain for so long.
It was a miracle she hadn’t gone into shock.
“No, I won’t leave.” Dorothy was weak and shaky in her voice, but the word “no” came out with
undeniable rity. “He hasn’t woken up yet… I have to stay with him.”
Keh was at his wit’s end. “Dorothy! Do you want to kill yourself with this stubbornness? If not for
anyone else, think about your children! Abigail and Langston are waiting for you. They’re your kids with
Everett!”
Chapter 458
On the mention of Abigail and Langston, Dorothy finally settled her gaze with a different light sparked in
her eyes.
“Abigail… she’s okay, right?”
“She’s fine! Heather didn’ty a finger on her. With Karen watching over her, she didn’t even lose a
hair!”
“And what about Karen?”
Keh thinned his lips and didn’t answer immediately.
Dorothy clenched her heart and grabbed his sleeve, urgent with worry, “Is Karen badly hurt? Did
Heather do something to her?”
At the thought of what Heather had done to hersell, Dorothy was filled with instant terror!
She feared that Karen had suffered those torments.
“She’s alright, better than alright! Her parents picked her up to take care of her Keh quickly
reassured her. “You’re the one who got the worst of it, Dorothy Come back with me. Who knows how
long you’ll have to wait here?”
Keh had rushed to the scene earlier. By the time he arrived, Everett was already deeply
unconscious, being whisked away in an ambnce along with Heather.
He had headed inside the warehouse. Upon entering, the smell of blood hit him. Following the scent,
he stumbled upon a huge pool of blood on the ground.
It was a sight that shook him to his core!
Keh thought Everett hadn’t made it.
Later on, it was only after he held back Kevin, who was dealing with the aftermath, that he learned
which hospital Everett had been taken to.
Keh knew Dorothy would ask about him as soon as she woke up
But as for Everett’s condition, he knew it wasn’t good. Even if she stayed by the dacr all night, there
might not be any news.
“Please, let me stay here to be with him,” Dorothy whispered weakly. “He’s done so much for me. Let
me do this.”
Keh fell his gaze, realizing just how thin she had be sinceing to Elcornia City, frail and
gaunt.
Her corbone was deeply recessed, and her vertebrae protruded starkly as she bowed her head.
“I never could say no to you.”
Keh let out a heavy sigh and called a friend from the City Hospital to bring over a coat and some
fever reducers.
Even if she wasn’t going back for treatment, she needed to bring her fever dawn.
At this rate, she was going to faint right there.
Unable to sway her, Keh stayed by Dorothy, waiting through the night as it turned to day through
the cessation of the torrential rain. Until he had smoked his way through an entire pack of cigarettes,
they still got no news,
Finally, at seven in the morning, a person in a whiteb coat emerged, opening the door,
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The sight of Dorothy and Keh seemed to startle him.
“What are you two doing here?”
Dorothy tried to speak, but her voice was as if lost, her lips moving without sound.
Thankfully, Keh was there. He stood up and approached, “Hello, I wanted to ask about the patient
brought in yesterday, Everett. How is he doing?”
The doctor blinked, recollecting. “Ah! The young heir of the wealthy Lopoz family?
“That’s the one!”
“He’s transferred overseas during the night” The doctor nced at Dorothy’s pale face and continued,
“His injuries were too severe and that stab wound was fatal! Pierced right through the chest, there was
nothing more we could do.”
Keh turned to support Dorothy, who was attempting to crawl to the doctor’s feat, her voice raspy
and barely nudible.
“Whic… country did he go to?
“I have no idea!” the doctor replied.