The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 10

But the voice on the other end wasn’t Everett’s. It was his assistant returning the call.

Dorothy felt a tad bummed, but she still gave it a try. “I’m Dorothy Sanchez. A classmate of Mr. Lopez. Could you please relay a message to him? I’d like him to call me back.”

“Alright, Ms. Sanchez. Is there anything else?”

“No, thank you.”

After hanging up, she suddenly felt a twinge of understanding towards her mother’s desperate leap from the building.

When you’re backed into a comer by all sorts of unexpected events, you really just feel like throwing in the towel.

The hospital was frigid.

By the wee hours, Dorothy jolted awake on the patient’s chair, realizing she had dozed off out of sheer exhaustion.

She checked on her sleeping mother and tucked her in.

Her phone was flooded with messages from Karen.

“Dorothy, don’t worry: I’ve already called my parents. They agreed to lend you another 200k, so you’ll have 400k. We’ll piece it together bit by bit. 111 reach out to some other friends tomorrow; we’ll definitely reach our goal.”

me! Reply, Dorothy!

I’m going to my parents’ place

ICU to call Karen back.

to scare me to death, you

was in the ICU, so my phone was

Remember, if money

to respond, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a tall figure appearing at the other end of the long hospital

a

out, “Hello? Dorothy! Hello? Why can’t I

her, removing his coat and draping it around the frail

at night. You’ll catch a cold.”

as icy as ever, and

thought she was hallucinating out of

that? Hello, Dorothy!” Karen was still talking on the other

that she had something to deal with and hung

Why are you here?”

you call for me?”

moistened her dry lips, instinctively smoothing her hair.

Dorothy realized she didn’t know what