The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 509

Jeffrey could feel his blood boil at the mere utterance of that name.

“What’s the deal? You guys used to be thick as thieves, right?”

“She kidnapped Dorothy’s kid and had it out for Dorothy. When she didn’t get her loved one at last, she just stabbed Everett in a fit of madness and planned to go down with him!”

“You mean Heather?”

“Who else would I be talking about?”

Silence hung on Lane’s end of the line, and just as Jeffrey was about to conclude the call had dropped, Lane rushed out, “Something’s come up, gotta run.”

The abrupt end to the call only added to Jeffrey’s irritation.

On Lane’s end, his grip on his phone was precarious. He feared Jeffrey might discern something from his demeanor, so he hung up out of panic.

Lane had sensed something was off with Everett; otherwise, the Lopez Corporation wouldn’t be sending a junior secretary to handle partnership meetings, and they wouldn’t have locked down the City Hospital. Therefore, he assumed that Everett was injured.

Dorothy, who vanished afterwards, had

people, would be the mastermind behind it all. So she really had the gall to kidnap Dorothy’s daughter… but she had sworn to him that she wouldn’t lay a finger on Dorothy

Dorothy; Heather, that madwoman, must’ve spilled the

and hurled his phone. The screen was

and car keys,

doorbell, which was just like the silence he got from calling

to stand for it. He was being sidelined before he even had a chance to act. He had a whole plan

secretary waiting anxiously at his

of the car, Lane approached, “What’s

“I couldn’t reach you by phone, so I had to come. Disaster struck. The president of the Lopez Corporation tanked East Star Enterprises‘

was shocked to hear

said!

they are not even worth

toil

to breathe and

Lane, what do we