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.

ever actually trusted me? You had your mind made up, didn't you? Ready to stand against me the moment

never earn Dorothy's

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

on, or maybe he never really had a grip to begin

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 lowered, concealing all his emotions,

the restorers computer. Heather and my mom set it up that way on purpose, so

an instant, leaving her with nothing

destroyed it, wiping out the tracing code as well, which meant the virus- infected computer belonging

never dreamed it

Everett just say so from the start? He was

situation, and he wanted to see where she would place him once the dust