The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 484

You are the hardest person!”

The words slipped out of Dorothy’s mouth before she could stop them, and only after they were hanging in the air did she realize they had a certain ambiguity.

Everett, ever the troublemaker, chose to play along. “Yes, I am. I’ll own that.”

“Ugh, I can’t even deal with you right now!”

Dorothy turned to leave, but Everett’s grip was ironclad, unyielding.

She frowned in frustration, “Why do you have to be such a pain like Jeffrey, picking up his bad habits!”

During the takeover of East Star Enterprises, Dorothy had seriously doubted that the decision was unlikely Everett’s conduct. His demeanor was always collected, mature, and reserved, never acting like a petulant child.

But that decision might have been fatal for both camps!

“Because I’ve realized that sometimes you have to play the fool to keep someone like you close.”

Before Dorothy returned to his life, Everett’s world had been orderly and disciplined: waking up, attending meetings, travelling for work, domestic or international. Nothing seemed amiss. But after reuniting with her, Everett began to see that too much gentlemanship could be a losing game in a relationship.

let go of her hand for the sake of manner, he’d miss out on even a moment

of twisted logic you learned from

on my own.”

help but laugh despite little

eaten, I’ll have someone take you to rest. You must be exhausted.”

With only a month to spare, she didn’t want to spend a second away from Everett,

troubled expression, she pressed, “Is there

there was a problem!

beside him while being unable to touch

find the words, eventually just sighing, “Never mind. Just stay if

bottle up

I supposed to know if you don’t tell me?” Dorothy didn’t

with her, but

“It’s nothing.”

with it! I want to know!” Dorothy

awkward turn of his face, Everett’s voice dropped to a whisper. “It’s just… my chest is injured, but everything else

innocently, raising an

smell your scent, I start to