The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

After a tiresome day, Karen headed straight to her bedroom to catch some z’s.

She wove through a tapestry of bizarre dreams, only to be jostled awake by the persistent knocking of her dad, Derek.

Bleary-eyed, her hand instinctively searched for her phone to check the time, but then it hit her that her phone was busted.

“Karen?” Derek’s knocks continued, a steady rhythm against her door.

She quickly ran her fingers through her hair, “Coming, coming!”

Swinging the door open, she found Derek with a box in hand, “Karen, someone dropped this off for you. He said your phone got busted by accident, and this is the replacement.”

Karen bit her lips. She knew in a heartbeat it was Jeffrey’s doing. And what did he mean by “by accident”?

“Is it for you?” Derek asked. Sensing her silence, his voice was tinged with caution.

“Yeah, someone wrecked my phone and mentioned something about a replacement.” She took the box without ceremony.

After all, it was indeed Jeffrey’s fault, and he wasn’t hurting for cash. But she was.

A new phone would set her back a few hundred bucks.

“That nearly gave me a heart attack. I thought it was some scam,” Derek chuckled; he didn’t give much thought about it.

a few laughs in return before

she could set up her

she found the latest, most expensive

film had already been peeled

“A second-hand phone?!”

in displeasure, but upon booting it up, she realized it was new—her card

smashed phone with him when he left? That was the only way her card could

flabbergasted at the time, Karen

began downloading her go-to apps. Before she

yet to be transferred, the caller was

answered. Her tone was

Karen?” The voice on the other end

It wasn’t Jeffrey.

“Yes, speaking. Who’s this?”

the friend your parents introduced

didn’t reply at

was her

she’d completely overlooked getting in touch with

a message on WhatsApp today, and when you didn’t reply, I thought

seem like she was

not that I didn’t get back to you. My phone got trashed, and I haven’t logged onto WhatsApp yet. I