Dorothy lingered in silence so long that she feared the voice that would eventually break it wouldn't even sound like her own.
"Then... don't come back."
Everett remained silent.
"Everett, go back to where you belong," she added.
He clenched his fists so tightly that the veins on the back of his hands stood out like angry rivers.
"How do you do it? How can you say something so heartless without batting an eyelash? Huh?"
His voice was hoarse, dripping with despair.
Dorothy had a knack for smashing his slowly gathered courage, his glimmers of hope, into oblivion, leaving nothing behind!
And just moments ago, everything was fine. They were holding hands in the cab back from the airport!
"Because I'm just a rock, I don't have warmth," Dorothy replied, her gaze piercing through him as she enunciated every word. "You should've known this by now. I'm incapable of love; I only stick to my convictions."
"I never asked you to change!" He had been trying his whole life to reshape himself! He was chiseling away, just hoping to fit into the mold she desired.
"But I truly don't want to respond to your feelings anymore. I'm exhausted. And Everett, doesn't it bother you?" Dorothy inhaled deeply, deciding to lay it all out. "Your father came to see me. Even though I didn't admit it, I think you knew. The photos he showed me, you've seen them, haven't you?"
Everett's lips pressed into a thin line. "Yes."
"Then, that day after you saw them, I noticed something off about you." Dorothy's smile was a twisted mimicry of warmth. "Tell me the truth, were you also trying to convince me to drop the criminal charges against your mother?"
"Yes..." He had considered it.
Even after those photos shook him, even when his father Jonathan's offer was tempting, he hadn't spoken a single word in his mother's defense.
"So what, I should be grateful? Overlook all the animosity and be with you? Everett, there's no reconciliation. Even if you killed your mother with your own hands, it won't change the fact that you are her son."
Just like now...
The Lopez family, despite their influence, couldn't change the fact that Everett's mother murdered Bella.
What's done is done.
"If that's what you truly think, then why did you go on vacation with me? Why did you share a bed with me?" Everett was desperate, grasping at her arms as if he were clinging to life itself. "There's still a part of you that's mine, right?"
"Yes." Dorothy knew denying it outright would be futile. "But honestly, the way you treat me, it's exhausting, it's suffocating."
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The readers' comments on the novel: The CEO's Hidden Love: Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires
Why didn't Jeffrey call Everett from the office? Lock his door instruct security to not let anyone in and speak to Everett on the phone? Or send him a text giving him a quick summary of what's up and that he's on his way over. That way when he runs into Heather on his way out he informs her Everett already knows....
The children's stories are si boring. This book is like torture. I've put in so much time I have to see this through but it's becoming more difficult....
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?...