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.

me the moment you got the

he never

days." "Okay." He let out a sigh, stepping back to put some distance

or maybe he never really had a

"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 lowered, concealing all his emotions, "Including Heather's

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

would vanish in an instant, leaving her with nothing to

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

it would be like

just say so from the start? He was

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