The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

"Um, didn't you fall asleep?" Dorothy was startled by Everett's sudden movement.

Everett opened his eyes, and even in the dim moonlit room, he could precisely lock onto her gaze.

"Answer my question." "I was heading to bed." As Dorothy turned to leave, he caught her wrist as his tall figure rose abruptly from the couch, "Tell me, I want to hear it." "Just because you want to hear it means I have to answer?" "Yes." Everett's tone was unusually commanding when he forced a direct response from her.

Dorothy knew she couldn't dodge this, and after a moment, her demeanor softened slightly, "You want my trust, and I can't give it." "What if you don't have to trust me? Can you be at peace by my side then?" he asked.

downcast as she said, "I'm torn, too. I know if I give up clearing my mother's name, I could gain the approval of the Lopez family; I could be with you and also our kids. But... wouldn't that be like stepping over my mom's body to enter the Lopez family? I just can't do it!" She even felt that any slight wavering in her resolve was a sin! Like she'd be damned to the deepest hell! "You don't need their approval. If I acknowledge you as my

want to end all this, and death

on Amanda, she hadn't thought

opportunity but a complete loss of will. She just wanted to be free to leave this world forever, where none of its turmoil could touch her. She'd be blind about others' life or death after she closed her eyes forever. That attraction becincreasingly overwhelming, and was

Eventually, her hallucinations began.

on a high place, she could see her mother waving her over

she could read the lines carved on them, "Pierceinto

these thoughts, a boundless fear spread through

his gaze intense and serious, "If I have you by my side overy day if can make you the first person I see after opening my eyes and the last person I see before going to bed, what else matters?" "But Everett, you're not like Jeffrey. You'd