The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 10

But the voice on the other end wasn’t Everett’s. It was his assistant returning the call.

Dorothy felt a tad bummed, but she still gave it a try. “I’m Dorothy Sanchez. A classmate of Mr. Lopez. Could you please relay a message to him? I’d like him to call me back.”

“Alright, Ms. Sanchez. Is there anything else?”

“No, thank you.”

After hanging up, she suddenly felt a twinge of understanding towards her mother’s desperate leap from the building.

When you’re backed into a comer by all sorts of unexpected events, you really just feel like throwing in the towel.

The hospital was frigid.

By the wee hours, Dorothy jolted awake on the patient’s chair, realizing she had dozed off out of sheer exhaustion.

She checked on her sleeping mother and tucked her in.

Her phone was flooded with messages from Karen.

“Dorothy, don’t worry: I’ve already called my parents. They agreed to lend you another 200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll piece it together bit by bit. 111 reach out to some other friends tomorrow; we’ll definitely reach our goal.”

Dorothy! Don’t do anything

you? I’m in Eldorria City, and I’m going to my parents’ place to get the

ICU to

me to death, you know!”.

the ICU, so my phone

no hope? Remember, if money

Dorothy was about to respond, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a tall figure appearing at the other end of the long

was like a deity had

calling out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why can’t

coat and draping it around the frail Dorothy.

night. You’ll catch a cold.”

icy as ever, and his deep eyes were focused on

momentarily thought she was hallucinating out of

that? Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still talking on the other end.

that she had something to deal with and hung

are

you call

hair. “Yes, I did… I needed to

when it came to it, Dorothy realized she didn’t know what to