The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

"No, Everett! That was my last shot. Do you want me to die?!" She clutched at Everett's shirt collar with a manic desperation, biting down hard and pounding at him with her fists.

Everett didn't flinch, not so much as a furrow in his brow, as he let her vent her fury.

Gradually, Dorothy's strength ebbed away.

"Everett, my mom didn't do anything wrong. Why was she the one to get killed. It should have been me. Why didn't your mom just finish the job and take me out too. Everett, since you could erase the video, can you just erase me too? I'm so tired, I'm really just so tired." Tears brimmed and spilled over, streaking down her cheeks.

Everett lifted a hand, gently wiping them away.

But the tears wouldn't stop, so he kept wiping them one by one, as if this simple act could make her stop crying.

"Dorothy, have you ever actually trusted me? You had your mind made up, didn't you? Ready to stand against me the moment you got the evidence, to raise your banner in defiance and cast me as your enemy." Everett couldn't understand.

could he never earn

a sigh, stepping back to put

or maybe he never really

7 only recovered a fragment, and I bet he made demands in exchange for the full thing, right? In three days, I'll give

Heather and my mom set it up that way on purpose, so there's no way it

instant, leaving her with nothing to present in

it, wiping out the tracing code as well, which meant the virus- infected computer belonging to Langston also went dark, and Byte 7's wasn't spared

never dreamed it

say so from the start? He was