The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

"No, Everett! That was my last shot. Do you want me to die?!" She clutched at Everett's shirt collar with a manic desperation, biting down hard and pounding at him with her fists.

Everett didn't flinch, not so much as a furrow in his brow, as he let her vent her fury.

Gradually, Dorothy's strength ebbed away.

"Everett, my mom didn't do anything wrong. Why was she the one to get killed. It should have been me. Why didn't your mom just finish the job and take me out too. Everett, since you could erase the video, can you just erase me too? I'm so tired, I'm really just so tired." Tears brimmed and spilled over, streaking down her cheeks.

Everett lifted a hand, gently wiping them away.

But the tears wouldn't stop, so he kept wiping them one by one, as if this simple act could make her stop crying.

made up, didn't you? Ready to stand against me the

he never earn Dorothy's

"Dorothy," Everett interrupted softly, "How many days left of your appointment with my dad?" "Three days." "Okay." He let out a sigh, stepping back to put some distance

on, or maybe he never really

bet he made demands in exchange for the full thing, right? In three days,

a self-destruct code and comes with a virus that infects the restorers computer. Heather and my mom set it up that way on purpose, so there's no way it would survive until you got it to court.” By then, Dorothy

instant, leaving her with nothing to present

earlier and then deeply destroyed it, wiping out the tracing code as well, which meant the virus- infected computer belonging to Langston also went dark, and

dreamed it would

Everett just say so from the start?

wanted to know how she would handle this situation, and he wanted to see where she would place him