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.

vanished afterwards, had gone to

behind it all. So she really had the gall to kidnap Dorothy’s daughter… but she had

wonder he couldn’t get through to Dorothy; Heather, that madwoman, must’ve spilled

I be so stupid?!” Lane cursed and hurled his phone. The screen was instantly shattered and blanking out.

and car keys, he stormed

knocking or the doorbell, which was just

to act. He had a whole plan laid out and all Heather needed to

his secretary waiting anxiously at his doorstep. She was obviously

the car, Lane approached, “What’s up?”

by phone, so I had to come. Disaster struck. The president of the Lopez Corporation tanked East Star Enterprises‘ stock to rock bottom and

to hear what she

said!

had taken such a hit that they are not even worth a tenth of what they were when you acquired them.”

meant all his years of toil had

hardball by leaving him no room to breathe and aiming straight for the

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