CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

Shane placed his hands into his pocket coolly, then announced, “Because the corneas that Jacqueline is interested in belong to someone who is already dying.”

“Someone who's already dying?” Natalie stared at him, incomprehension written all over her face.

Shane nodded in affirmation. “Jacqueline said herself that the person she's thinking of only has about two or three months to live.”

This revelation allowed Natalie to breathe a little easier, gradually recovering her composure. The suspicion she had been harboring in her mind began to slowly evaporate.

Two to three months to live? It sounds like a terminal illness. I guess we've truly misunderstood Ms. Graham.

Awkwardly, Natalie bobbed her head in apology. “I'm sorry, Mr. Shane. We've completely misunderstood Ms. Graham,” she admitted.

“It's fine. I'll confess that even I found Jacqueline's reaction just now to be rather dubious,” Shane replied kindly, dismissing Natalie's apology.

Natalie looked at him. “Since it was a pure misunderstanding, let's not discuss this matter anymore. We'll be off now.”

She grabbed each of her two children's hands and hurried into the lift.

Shane followed them, much to Natalie's dismay.

He immediately perceived

was going

trapped. Flustered, she did her best to overlook his presence in

deliberately keeping a distance from Shane. Natalie also kept her eyes desperately trained on the lift

obvious. Perturbed, Shane longed to confess his feelings for her and put

he couldn't do that. He had yet to

lay his heart bare to Natalie, he would only subject Natalie and

this, Shane hardened his heart. He clenched his hands that were hidden deep within his pockets, with

of them spoke. The silence in the lift was deafening, broken only by the occasional sounds of light breathing. Beneath the incredible weight of the tension,

with her. Connor and Sharon both heaved a sigh of relief, glad to have escaped that claustrophobic

asked as

and Sharon shook their heads.

Natalie repeated. She patted their heads, and

walked over to the driver's seat. Instead of diving

was nowhere to be seen. Natalie puzzled briefly over where he could have vanished to, given that he had

linger on it. Then, Natalie quickly snapped back to her present, got into the car quickly, and drove