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

are you? I’m in Eldorria City, and I’m going to my parents’ place to get the money. We’ve raised 450k

ICU to

scare me to death, you

ICU, so my phone was on

money can solve the problem, it’s not a

she spotted

was like a deity

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

towards her, removing his coat and draping it

cold at night. You’ll

voice was as icy as ever, and

thought she was hallucinating out

still talking on the other end.

she had something to deal with

are

you call

smoothing her hair. “Yes, I did… I needed to

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