The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Indeed, Amanda was hospitalized.

The court had ordered the transfer of the suspect back to the detention center, and just one day after Amanda's return, her condition worsened.

Everett had been at the hospital for two days.

He hadn't told Dorothy because he was still undecided.

It was such a difficult decision to make...

The hospital felt especially cold in the dead of night.

Everett sat on a bench, his lips pressed tightly together, silent.

Suddenly, footsteps echoed from the other end of the hospital corridor.

He looked up to see Jonathan, who was supposed to have gone to rest, returning.

"Dad, I'll stay here tonight. You go get some sleep."

Jonathan's face was pale, as if he had been scared by something, and he shook his head, "No, I'll just sit here."

"What's wrong?" Everett offered his father a hand.

that your mother was gone! It scared me awake, and I dared not sleep again. I thought

lowered his eyelashes, listening to

everything to stop me, worried it would harm my health, saying drinking was

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playing games in the business world, the socializing and drinking, in the end, those things...they don't amount to anything! Like now, if

But it wasn't possible.

many doctors had

kept ending up

certainly doesn't deserve Dorothy's forgiveness, but

tone carried a rare

previous confrontation, replaced with a casual father-son

his father's words echoing

Indeed.

up all his savings

how could he not

force you. After all, you're grown up, with your own thoughts! As parents, we really shouldn't impose our plans on you." Jonathan raised his hand, patting his son's shoulder, "In

finished, the