The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

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"Yeah."

"Is it my mother's death that's made you start hating me?" Dorothy could only think of that as an explanation.

He hated himself.

Otherwise, why would he be so heartless?

"...Don't bring that up.

Dorothy pursed her lips. At this point, she didn't want to argue with Everett. It was too exhausting, and because there had been love.

The only real relationship she had, she didn't want it to end in embarrassment for both of them.

"Everett, I'm begging you, okay?"

Dorothy turned away, refusing to look at him.

Because she didn't want to cry in front of Everett.

She didn't want anyone to see her at her weakest.

"I'm begging you, let me take the kids and leave. I promise I won't contact you again, I won't disturb you!"

"Dorothy..."

"Maybe you're right. Our relationship has too much baggage, too deeply entangled, involving the deaths of both our mothers! Indeed, being together we only hurt each other. So, let's not be together. It's a way to free ourselves."

Dorothy wasn't one to take things lightly. She had been thinking about this for days.

Why she and Everett just couldn't work out.

From the beginning, the difference in status was something that could never fully be erased! If she had been someone of note, someone whose background matched that of the Lopez family, then... there wouldn't have been any issue with Heather, would there?

At the root of it, it was because she wasn't good enough for Everett.

Although she had understood this early on, it felt like a cruel joke by fate.

It let her live a dream, a ludicrous daydream.

Now that she had awoken from the dream, not clinging to it was the only way to preserve the last bit of her dignity.

"What about me if you take the kids away?"

Everett's voice couldn't maintain its previously cold tone.

Even though he tried, he still trembled slightly, out of fear.

He was afraid, terrified even!

Afraid that once Dorothy left, he'd never find her again.

Afraid that she would truly give up on him, and even if she later learned the whole truth, she wouldn't come back to him, like before!

Knowing Dorothy, she wasn't one to easily trust. It had taken him over a decade of effort to finally make her believe in him.

"You can have more kids with Quincy! She can give you that." Dorothy lowered her head, secretly wiping away her tears, "Just let me have Abigail and Langston. I can't be without them."

"I can't be without them either."

"Everett!" Dorothy suddenly turned to face him, her eyes shimmering with tears and disappointment, "Do you really... want me to die?"

Without Everett, and now possibly losing the kids too.

She really felt there was nothing left in this world worth staying for!

"I'm not trying to take the kids! You just need to stay here, stay in Bay Residence, the kids will be with you."

Everett's intention wasn't to take the kids away.

He just wanted to keep Dorothy.

"Don't push me."

"Dorothy, just calm down and listen to me." Everett tried not to escalate the situation, "Abigail and Langston are attending school here in Eldorria City. Suddenly changing schools, even moving abroad, it's going to be hard on them! You can't just think about your own feelings and drag the kids along with you."This is the property of Nô-velDrama.Org.

"If you don't want to stay at Bay Residence, you can move somewhere else! I promise... I won't come to disturb you."