The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 593

Everett shot an instinctive look to Dorothy upon hearing the proposition.

Dorothy’s petite face had gone a shade paler, a forced calm painted over her features while her lashes fluttered like the wings of a trapped butterfly. It took her several seconds to nod in agreement, "Okay, I'll go." "If you don't want to go alone, I can come with you," Kenneth offered gently.

"No need. Bye, Kenneth." Dorothy's steps became noticeably flustered. It was Everett's arm, wrapped supportively around her waist, that guided her into the car and away from the scene.

Kenneth watched the car grow smaller in the distance until it disappeared from view, a storm of guilt brewing inside him like a tempest.

He knew he shouldn't have brought up her mother at such a moment—that was her sore spot.

But the indignation within him was just too strong to suppress.

Why should Everett play the magnanimous benefactor and do charity to him? He called it compensation as if it wasn't a blatant insult! Kenneth had tried to rise above the pettiness because he was deemed to be defeated. But he hadn't counted on Everett tailing Dorothy even for a simple errand! Everett was always so cautious and always so attuned to Dorothy's feelings...

considered how

take it. After all, for all of Everett's virtues, he was burdened with a mother who was

heart ached

love for Everett, she must have wrestled with the choice more than anyone knew. She, who typically shied away from

Everett's bewildered gaze earlier, it was clear Dorothy hadn't shared even a whisper of her turmoil with him. She

Kenneth regretted bringing up her mother and reopening

had been on the way over, but now it was heavy with

to look at Dorothy for the fifth time,

wrong?" he

a bit tired, I guess." It was a

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