The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Dorothy lingered in silence so long that she feared the voice that would eventually break it wouldn't even sound like her own.

"Then... don't come back." Everett remained silent.

"Everett, go back to where you belong,” she added.

He clenched his fists so tightly that the veins on the back of his hands stood out like angry rivers.

"How do you do it? How can you say something so heartless without batting an eyelash? Huh?" His voice was hoarse, dripping with despair.

Dorothy had a knack for smashing his slowly gathered courage, his glimmers of hope, into oblivion, leaving nothing behind! And just moments ago, everything was fine. They were holding hands in the cab back from the airport! "Because I'm just a rock, I don't have warmth," Dorothy replied, her gaze piercing through him as she enunciated every word.

change!" He had been trying

all out. "Your father came to see me. Even though I didn't admit it, I think you knew. The photos he showed me, you've seen them, haven't you?" Everett's lips pressed into a thin line. "Yes." "Then, that day after you saw them, I noticed something off about you." Dorothy's smile was a twisted mimicry of warmth. "Tell me the truth, were you also trying to convince me to drop the criminal charges against your mother?" "Yes..." He had

just one! The Lopez family was finally ready to accept Dorothy. They could be together at last, and he could proudly claim Dorothy as his own, proclaim her to everyone! To say he wasn't tempted

the

know." That was why

trust Karen, even Kenneth completely, because their parents aren't involved in this mess. But you, you're different! It was your mother who deliberately murdered the last of my kin! And then you ask me to trust you, to be with you? Don't you see how absurd that is?" Everett's lips quivered.

SEES m Jr CAA n't spoken a I e word in his mother's defense. Please read

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