The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Everett shot an instinctive look to Dorothy upon hearing the proposition.

Dorothy’s petite face had gone a shade paler, a forced calm painted over her features while her lashes fluttered like the wings of a trapped butterfly. It took her several seconds to nod in agreement, “Okay, I’ll go.”

“If you don’t want to go alone, I can come with you,” Kenneth offered gently.

“No need. Bye, Kenneth.”

Dorothy’s steps became noticeably flustered. It was Everett’s arm, wrapped supportively around her waist, that guided her into the car and away from the scene.

Kenneth watched the car grow smaller in the distance until it disappeared from view, a storm of guilt brewing inside him like a tempest.

He knew he shouldn’t have brought up her mother at such a moment—that was her sore spot.

But the indignation within him was just too strong to suppress.

Why should Everett play the magnanimous benefactor and do charity to him? He called it compensation as if it wasn’t a blatant insult!

Kenneth had tried to rise above the pettiness because he was deemed to be defeated. But he hadn’t counted on Everett tailing Dorothy even for a simple errand!

always so cautious and always so attuned to

believe Everett hadn’t considered how his

all, for all of Everett’s virtues, he was burdened with a mother who

heart ached

have wrestled with the choice more than anyone knew. She, who typically shied away from confrontation and bottled up her emotions, was now ready to leave her two children for a

shared even a whisper of her turmoil with him. She likely wanted to give their relationship one last month to indulge in their passion and set aside

a rare decision for Dorothy, and Kenneth

…

silence was as thick as it had been on the way over, but now it

to look at Dorothy for the fifth time, and Dorothy

he

head, “Nothing, just a bit tired,

was a

you upset I gave Kenneth those

so long. You really should repay him, although it might

a gesture of gratitude, but they could feel like an insult

out of the question, and he wouldn’t want to. So I gave him a company of his own.”Books