The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

When Aurora rushed into the hospital, the hearse from the funeral home pulled up at the same time.

Craig was standing alone outside the ER doors, looking lost and isolated.

He wasn't crying-he just stood there in silence, staring at nothing, until Aurora's hurried footsteps finally caught his attention.

"You're here," he said quietly.

"Yeah.” Aurora walked over, her lips parting as if to say something, but the words just wouldn't come.

She knew exactly what Amelie meant to Craig.

Aside from Elijah, his son, his mom was the only family he had left in the world.

For years, Craig had worked himself to the bone-late nights, early mornings, double shifts-just to pay for his mother's treatments. Fixing her, keeping her alive, had become his whole purpose.

And now, suddenly, it was all over.

No way back.

in hospitals for years, with no real life of her own. She hated the smell of antiseptics.

to sound comforting, but she knew nothing she

suddenly, Craig turned and pulled Aurora into a fierce

away, but then she

Craig was crying.

said if she ended up in the ER again, I should just let her go,

"I know," Aurora murmured.

with me for a while?

above

my parents-I don't have to worry. I'll

all those years together, family ties didn't just vanish overnight. Aurora had never stopped calling Amelie "Mom." Of course

...

maybe we should go

was Abigail's mother-in-law, and Craig was your brother-in-law for so long. If

you off at home first, then go myself," Miles replied firmly. "Hospitals are packed and full of germs. You know your health isn't the best right now. Promise me you stay home and rest. I'll just check in and be