The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

"You seem to really like that." She must be. Dorothy was the stoic type, the kind who wouldn't bother with anything that didn't catch her interest.

"Yeah, I do. Which girl doesn't adore flowers? Plus, if I get them into a vase sooner, they'll last longer. They've been wilting on my desk all afternoon.” Dorothy felt that these flowers were cultivated just so that their brief blooming period could be cherished and meaningful.

Naturally, if you could delay the inevitable wilting, you'd want to draw out their vibrant days as long as possible.

In that way she wouldn't waste those flowers, and the flower wouldn't let her down as well. Since they ended up in her care, she intended to extend their lifespan as much as she could.

As she arranged them, she realized something was off.

Everett wasn't speaking, nor was he hanging up. He just watched her handle the flowers, taking them apart one by one and placing them into the vase.

"You're not busy with work today?" Dorothy asked tentatively.

"It's still early,” Everett replied, his voice deep and gravelly, as if he hadn't quite shaken off a recent illness.

conversation starter that fell

the fourth project team?" Surprisingly, Everett picked

good. Everyone works hard. To land a job at Lopez Corporation, they've got to have skills.” It was a different mindset and atmosphere compared to her previous stints at Prosperity Consortium or East

Dorothy was even more afraid of

the credit." "No, don't. The project's too big. I can't see it through to the end,” Dorothy quickly declined. "When my six-month term is up, it'll transfer to a new director, and it wouldn't be fair if my name were still attached then!" While being credited on big projects is crucial in investment banking, a key part of one's resume used by companies to gauge competence, Dorothy

deter capable directors from taking on a project they couldn't claim as their own. Even with shared credit, it would feel like raising someone else's

well from her years

Corporation.” "That's unlikely, with the lawsuit and all..." She regretted her words as soon as they

and Everett were

the project, and nobody would object to you completing it." "Thanks for the offer.” That

few seconds, murmured an