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

and Langston were still so young; they needed

Everett in this

couldn't

physically strong as I am. You

already been taken by you. Complaining about it now,

might even go smoother than you planned! And you won't have to keep

relax his furrowed

Dorothy reached up

listen to me

he spoke, "I'm afraid of losing

her arms, embracing him tightly, "You once said, if I died, you wouldn't live on alone! If something happened

need to stay alive,

was, Everett