"Why do you have to ask?"
Right now, Everett was in a bind. He couldn't admit the truth, but denying it felt just as impossible. So, he tried to dodge the question.
But didn't his very avoidance seem like an admission of guilt?
"You...you really make me sick."
Dorothy yanked her hand away, ready to storm off.
Almost reflexively, Everett reached out and grabbed her wrist, holding on tightly.
Despite the bandages around his hand quickly staining with blood from his grip, he refused to let go.
"What are you doing now?"
Dorothy's voice turned icy.
She felt genuinely nauseated, repulsed.
"There was nothing between her and me."
Everett's explanation was dry and blunt.
But he had to say it.
He was genuinely afraid that Dorothy, in a moment of impulsion, would leave the hospital and go straight to Kenneth Nelson, or some other man. Or perhaps she'd end up in a bar, drowning herself in liquor, and then leaving with some random guy.
That thought was enough to drive him mad.
Mad beyond anything Dorothy's current state could provoke.
"...Nothing as in what? No kissing? No sleeping together?"
"None of it."
Dorothy scoffed, "Am I supposed to believe that? The last time the two of you were in the office, were you just discussing work?"
She wasn't born yesterday. Everett had brought her into his office before. She knew exactly what could happen behind those closed doors.
"I told you the truth, but you don't believe me."
"And that hallucination earlier, who was it about?" Dorothy bit back, turning to face him, "In your dream, you said you had to save her, that you wouldn't let her die. Who was it?"
"..."
That question was even harder to answer than the previous ones.
"Who did you think it was? Me? Or Quincy?"
"Neither."
Everett wasn't even sure what he had been rambling about during his episode, what had been said, or what he could possibly make up on the spot.
"Then who?"
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The readers' comments on the novel: The CEO's Hidden Love: Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires
Finish this already...
Why are you delaying the updates? You wait over a month just to give us 5 chapters?...
Again no updates in weeks, is this where the story ends?...
Can you please just post the whole book this is dragging out and no updates in weeks...
Felicity s hold grow up n relise that craving is playing n finish getting back together correctly with mile n get married and Abigail needs to grow up n stop being shelter by her parent n realize that the other women is lying n getting her to hpget a divorce with Craig, n Craig needs to be to pride to see what's really going on n stop being dumb...
This story is getting boring already. Just wrap it up 🙏...
Can you please convey this to the person who owns this website? Update “find me in your labyrinth” novel please...author is MIA since 12/4......
I don't agree with not letting him in. That just seems cruel and besides wasn't the whole point of getting pregnant again was for him to experience and travel the journey of pregnancy with her?...
Sometimes Karen can be such a drama queen and immature....
For some reason I am now feeling suspicious about Kevin's new girlfriend....