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.

figured Dorothy, who vanished afterwards, had gone to Everett’s side.

Heather, of all 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

to Dorothy; Heather, that madwoman, must’ve spilled the beans about him!

be so stupid?!” Lane cursed and hurled his phone.

his suit jacket and car keys, he stormed over to Heather’s place.

or the doorbell, which was just like the silence he got from calling her number.

chance to act.

anxiously at his doorstep. She

of the car,

phone, so I had to come. Disaster struck. The president of

shocked to hear what

said!

even worth a tenth of what they were when you acquired them.”

his years of toil had evaporated overnight into meaningless numbers.

no room to breathe and aiming

what do we do