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.”

scare me! Reply, Dorothy! Don’t

going to my parents’ place to get

left the ICU to call

about to scare me to death,

sorry… I was in the ICU, so my phone

money can solve the problem, it’s not a problem.”

of the corner of her eye, she spotted a tall figure

was like a deity

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

coat and draping it around the

night. You’ll catch a

icy as ever, and his deep eyes were

was hallucinating out of

Dorothy!” Karen was still talking

had something to deal with and

are you here?”

you call for me?”

smoothing her hair. “Yes, I did… I

it, Dorothy realized she