The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Jeffrey had prepared an outpouring of confessions, heartfelt truths, but at that moment, Karen had cornered him into silence, leaving him with just one line.

"So what now?" Karen didn't want to drag all those issues out into the open, but he kept pressing, leaving her no choice.

"As long as we don't break up, I'll agree to anything you say, okay?" "But all I want is to break up with you, cleanly and completely.” Karen didn't look at him, her back turned to Jeffrey.

"Karen, ever since I've been with you, I stopped going out, and I haven't been involved with anyone else. Paige was just...

someone I didn't know about! If I had known, I would've never let that child be born." Karen scoffed.

"What's the use in saying that now? The child is already here. She's your daughter!” "I can deny her. I can give Paige a sum of money, and have her take the child and leave, okay?" Jeffrey raised his hand in an oath. "I, Jeffrey, swear on everything that I will never see them again! From now on, you are the only one in my eyes and in my heart." Once, such words might have touched Karen, but now they left her unmoved.

so pointless, Jeffrey." She frowned, steadying her emotions before looking him in the eyes, "By doing this, I end up being the villain! I'm the one keeping you from seeing your child, the one breaking up a father and his daughter. Have you thought about that? Your daughter will grow up! Then what? How is she going to see me?" "I... I just won't let her know who her father is!" "Stop joking. Secrets have a way of coming out." Karen had no desire to

not have experienced a life without parents, but empathy was enough to understand the

harder the life, the deeper the resentment, and that could lead to trouble later

didn't want any part

you want to do? I'll listen to you! I could even take the child from Paige and have my parents raise her, so she wouldn't resent you! Or

bring himself

death upon his daughter, not when he had just learned of

either. I'll admit, that day outside the hospital, I was willing to give us a chance to get back together, but that was before I knew about your daughter! These past few days, I've thought

wasn't about 'till death do us part,’ at the very least, she didn't