The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Dorothy awoke with a start, the familiar warmth of another person conspicuously absent from her side.

Glancing at the clock, it read 7 AM — a time when Everett would normally be hunched over his desk, sifting through a mountain of paperwork. But now, he was nowhere to be found in the hospital room.

Concern knitting her brows, Dorothy rose to search for him. She checked the doctor's office, and the long, sterile corridors — no sign of him.

Returning to the room to grab her phone, she dialed Everett's number, only to hear his ringtone echo from within the room.

His phone was left behind.

Odd.

Very odd.

"Dr. Quincy. Have you seen Everett around?" Dorothy inquired, her voice tinged with worry as she ventured out again.

If he left the hospital, he would have had to go through the main or back

that's the only option I have." In Swevia Country, she was

from behind, "Ms. Sanchez. Mr. Lopez is at the front entrance.” Whirling around and peering

stairs two at a time. She needed to find out what was going on,

details were

his complexion was ashen, and his lips drained of color, looking as if he were on the brink

she gasped, instinctively rushing towards him, only

voice a hoarse shadow of

her worry deepening. "Did you leave at dawn?" If he had only left the room in the morning,

his gaze avoiding hers, an unusual behavior for him. With long strides, he began

like him at

and tugging at his sleeve. "Everett, wait." Despite his haste, he stopped

on? Talk to me," she implored, her lips pressed together, a knot of anxiety

his eyes for answers, but to no