The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 452

Even now, after everything, she still wanted to marry Everett.

From the moment she first laid eyes on him, through all the trials and tribulations, Heather yearned to be Everett’s wife, if only for a day….

Everett furrowed his brow, his eyes cold and calculating as if he were trying to figure out how to disarm her.

Seeing no immediate movement from him, Heather pressed the blade she held ever so slightly deeper into Dorothy’s neck. “Unwilling?”

“Ahh…” A sharp pain forced a cry from Dorothy, but she still managed to extend a trembling hand towards Everett, shaking her head. “Don’t… Everett, please don’t…

“Don’t touch her, I’ll do as you say!” The sight of Dorothy’s blood sent Everett into action, casting aside all other concerns.

He dropped to one knee, his gaze lifting to meet Heather’s. “Are you satisfied now?”

beg! You haven’t even spoken yet, Heather twisted her face into a perverse semblance of joy “Say it, ask me to marry you!”

with a frosty glare in his eyes, “I ask you to marry me.”

Heather laughed even more wildly “Lauder, I didn’t hear you and

Everett raised

Come closer, Heather toyed

to me on

was in

only to catch a blurred vision of the man who once stood so high above them, untouchable in his dignity,

plead with her to hold on, just a little longer.

his teeth, Everett inched closer

shuffled nervously behind him, worried she might harm Mr. Lopez.

suddenly screamed at them. “Everett,

Dorothy’s flesh. He

three of them, Heather turned to Everett with a twisted smile. “Do you know how much I love you? When I was saving your mother, it hurts like a torture. But all I could think of was that if I survived, your