The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

The thoughts raced through his mind at lightning speed.

"It was that meal! You deliberately made it salty."

"Smart, aren't you? How else were you going to drink water obediently?" Dorothy said with a playful squint in her eyes. "Am I smart or what?"

"Smart my-"

Everett held back his curse with great effort.

"Calm down, hear me out!" Dorothy's gaze on him was earnest, her voice softened, "I don't want, and can't always have you shielding me from everything! Everett, you've done more than enough for me, truly. My life wouldn't be enough to repay you! So, please, don't make me owe you any more. Do you really want to suffocate me with debt?"

"...I didn't want you to know."

He had painstakingly kept it a secret for so long.

"I get it! Actually, if I had known about this from the start, maybe... I might have made some rash decisions, not wanting to see you threatened and led by the nose by Quincy, especially when I was already struggling mentally back then. My thoughts and actions were so narrow-minded. But now, I wouldn't."

truly past that

so young; they needed their

were friends and Everett in

truly irreparable, she couldn't just give up

not as physically strong as I am.

hands, "The antidote has already been taken

me, calm down! The antidote would work the same on anyone. Aren't we a team? With my cooperation, things might even go smoother

wouldn't relax his furrowed

Dorothy reached up

to

trembled as he spoke,

"You once said, if I died, you wouldn't live on alone! If something happened to you, how could I

to stay

this embrace was, Everett knew better than