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!

you? I’m in Eldorria City, and I’m going to my

quickly left the ICU to call

me to death, you

ICU, so my phone was on

despair. Who said there’s no hope? Remember, if money can solve the problem, it’s

out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a tall figure appearing at the other end of

a deity

calling out, “Hello? Dorothy!

towards her, removing his coat and draping it around the

night. You’ll catch a cold.”

as ever, and his deep eyes

thought she was hallucinating out of

was still talking

told Karen that she had something to deal with

are you here?”

call for me?”

lips, instinctively smoothing her hair.

realized