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.

the moment you got the evidence, to

he never earn

He let out a sigh, stepping back to put some distance between them, "After these last three days, I'll

or maybe he never really had a grip to

the video..." "Byte 7 only recovered a fragment, and I bet he made demands in exchange for the full thing, right? In three days, I'll give you the whole video." Everett's lashes

is no fool. The video Byte 7 recovered has 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

shred of evidence would vanish in an instant, leaving

tracing code as well, which meant the virus- infected computer belonging to Langston also went dark, and Byte 7's wasn't

dreamed it would be

so from the start? He was deliberately testing

situation, and he wanted to see where she would