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?”

spoken yet, Heather twisted her face into a perverse semblance of

in his eyes,

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

you!” Everett

hear you. Come closer, Heather toyed with him.

cut him off, “Don’t you stand. Crawl to me on your knees and then say you want to marry me!”

present was in sheer

man who once stood so high above them,

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

Everett inched

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

out, all of you, get out!” Heather suddenly screamed at them. “Everett, make them leaver”

Dorothy’s flesh. He would have agreed to anything at that point, even a life

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 mother would agree to let me marry you! Suddenly, the pain didn’t feel so bad anymore!”