The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

"No matter who comes around, I'm always gonna be Abigail and Langston's dad."

He was right, and Dorothy knew it. There was no coming back from that statement.

"You haven't answered my question, got any plans tonight?" Everett seemed almost too eager to find out, as if it was his mission. He was curious.

Well, she didn't feel like satisfying his curiosity!

"That's my own business as a single woman," she retorted, ready to walk away, but Everett suddenly grabbed her wrist, holding it tight.

"You got a date?"

"Everett, let go!"

His hand was slightly damp and cool from washing the dishes, an unexpected reminder of their once shared domestic life. Dorothy had intended to set clear boundaries, to stop herself from harboring any more illusions. Yet, she hadn't anticipated such a strong reaction from him.

"Who are you seeing? Karen?"

as a friend?" Dorothy snapped back, even though she knew the remark lacked bite. After all, Karen really was her only female friend.

Everett's expression

"Guy friends? Kenneth?"

not the

"You better be careful with

his grip, growing

kids! You've had your dinner, now it's time for you to leave and stop meddling in my personal life!" "Your personal life becomes my business when you start

was like a slap in

fine and dandy when you're with Quincy, but I'm messing around' if I have met friends? Everett, you're being completely

Everett after his mother passed, and he hadn't pushed her away. Yet, when it came to Dorothy,

"I"

I don't want to argue and I don't want the

it together, and she didn't want Everett to be the reason she fell apart now. "Let go of me," she

know who these guy friends

seemed to ignore everything she'd said before, focused solely on the "guy