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.”

me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t do

Eldorria City, and I’m going to my parents’ place to

the ICU to

were about to scare me to death, you know!”.

ICU, so my phone was on silent.”

Who said there’s no hope? Remember, if money

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

was like a deity had

ear, Karen was calling out, “Hello? Dorothy!

her, removing his coat and draping it around

night. You’ll catch a

icy as ever, and his deep eyes were focused on her.

she was

still talking on

she had something to deal with and hung up.

Why are you here?”

you call for

hair. “Yes, I

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