The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

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.

of his jacket. “Don’t you see? Every time you and Everett come close, disaster follows! Without him, your

proud Mr. Everett Lopez!”

words seared into Dorothy’s

her, making it hard to breathe, tears streaming uncontrollably.

seen it yourself, even after what Heather did, the Lopez family didn’t choose to accept you.”

Kenneth. His sole concern was to persuade Dorothy to stop torturing

herself and return.

me wait for him here. As soon as I know

desperately to the hope of seeing Everett again. Kenneth positioned the umbrella 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 to come back with

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.

leave.” Dorothy was weak and shaky in her voice, but the word “no” came out with

want to kill yourself with this stubbornness? If not for

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her gaze

okay,

With Karen watching over her, she didn’t even lose a

what about Karen?”

thinned his lips and didn’t answer immediately.

sleeve, urgent with worry, “Is

had done to

had suffered those

Kenneth quickly reassured her. “You’re the one who

the scene earlier. By the time he arrived, Everett was already deeply unconscious, being whisked away in an ambulance along

him. Following the scent, he stumbled upon a huge pool of

sight that shook him to his core!

hadn’t made

dealing with the aftermath, that he learned which hospital

would ask about him as soon as she woke