The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

The thoughts raced through his mind at lightning speed.

"It was that meal! You deliberately made it salty."

"Smart, aren't you? How else were you going to drink water obediently?" Dorothy said with a playful squint in her eyes. "Am I smart or what?"

"Smart my-"

Everett held back his curse with great effort.

"Calm down, hear me out!" Dorothy's gaze on him was earnest, her voice softened, "I don't want, and can't always have you shielding me from everything! Everett, you've done more than enough for me, truly. My life wouldn't be enough to repay you! So, please, don't make me owe you any more. Do you really want to suffocate me with debt?"

"...I didn't want you to know."

He had painstakingly kept it a secret for so long.

"I get it! Actually, if I had known about this from the start, maybe... I might have made some rash decisions, not wanting to see you threatened and led by the nose by Quincy, especially when I was already struggling mentally back then. My thoughts and actions were so narrow-minded. But now, I wouldn't."

She was truly past that phase.

Abigail and Langston were still so young; they needed their mom.

in this world who cared about

truly irreparable, she couldn't just give up on her

strong as I am. You can't

been taken by you. Complaining about it now, what's the

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me, calm down! The antidote would work the same on anyone. Aren't we a team? With my cooperation, things might even go smoother than you planned! And you won't have to keep

still wouldn't relax

up to smooth

you listen to me this

voice trembled as he spoke, "I'm afraid of losing

I'm not?" Dorothy

died, you wouldn't live

to stay alive, for

hard-fought this embrace was, Everett knew better than

the hardships, he had finally made it to

I grew up juggling jobs and school, what hardship haven't I faced? Back then, I felt like one in this world loved me, and couldn't appreciate my mom love until I lost her and

world are too few!"

and aloofness stemmed from her