CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

He was about to head downstairs after leaving the study when he overheard Natalie talking about the killer.

Thinking Natalie had intended to talk to Joyce in private about it, Shane decided to remain upstairs and listen in instead.

That was how he ended up hearing the entire conversation.

“Darling, don't you think fate is being rather cruel to Joyce and Stanley?” Natalie asked with a wry smile.

They were clearly doing good by sending Stanley's parents food and supplies, but they ended up exposing their whereabouts and got them killed. I bet Joyce's parents would be devastated if they find out about it... I don't think anyone would take kindly to the fact that they got their closest friends killed!

Shane walked up to Natalie and hugged her gently. “Don't worry too much about this. You already told them the truth, so all that's left for you to do is let them handle it themselves. Do not get involved in it any further.”

“I know. I won't get myself involved. I'm just worried about Joyce, that's all,” Natalie mumbled worriedly.

Shane ran his hand through her hair as he said, “In that case, you can keep a close eye on her to make sure she doesn't do anything rash.”

“Yeah, that's exactly what I'm planning to do.” Natalie then glanced around and asked, “By the way, where's Connor?”

“He went to play with Sharon in the room,” Shane replied while sitting down beside her.

Natalie nodded in response.

Their little quiet moment was disrupted when Shane's cell phone started ringing all of a sudden.

ID made it

was Jackson calling. “Dr. Baker? He

her question directly. “There are quite a lot of residents in this area. Given the

take his call,

hesitation, but answered

back home, right?” Jackson

get to the point,” Shane said

caught

icy-cold aura as he

I made sure to keep everything that happened overseas a secret. Nobody knows about Sean capturing Natalie, let alone what happened when

Shane's eyes

Darling?” Natalie

already started speaking on the phone. “It was Sean. He told me that

narrowed

me a

eased up significantly after hearing

have to weed out spies!

to have me

the sarcasm in his voice. “No, not at all! I just wanted to see her and ask her some questions, that's all! I would

see the error of

that, Jacqueline killed Shane's parents, nearly killed Natalie, and could even be linked to the