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?”

haven’t even spoken yet, Heather twisted her face into

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

Heather laughed even more wildly “Lauder, I didn’t hear you and neither did

Everett raised

you. Come closer, Heather toyed with

him off, “Don’t you stand. Crawl to me

was in sheer

to open her eyes, only to catch a blurred vision of the man who once stood so high

met, and he seemed to plead with her to hold on,

teeth, Everett inched closer to

nervously behind him, worried she might

of you, get out!” Heather suddenly

knife deeper into Dorothy’s flesh. He would have agreed to anything at that point,

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