The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 515

“Come on, you can see me?” Jeffrey’s voice was laced with a provocation as he broke the silence.

Everett was about to retort, but Dorothy touched his arm, signaling that it was okay to let it slide.

“I’m not blind,” Karen said nonchalantly, continuing to eat her burger as if the exchange hadn’t affected her in the least. “Dorothy, this chef sure knows how to make a killer burger!”

“Good, then help yourself to some more,” Dorothy replied.

Jeffrey dropped his fork as his sight bore into Karen. He set his cutlery down with a clatter, “Didn’t you say you never wanted to see me again? So, I’ve been treating you like you’re not here.”

“That’s fine by me,” Karen replied, unfazed by his comment.

Her indifferent attitude was like a punch on a pillow for Jeffrey. He would have preferred a fiery exchange of words to this polite restraint, which felt almost the stiffness she showed the first time they met.

Jeffrey opened his mouth to snap back, but Everett cut in with a frosty reminder, “Let’s eat, shall we?”

“Right.”

in their own thoughts; though Dorothy and Everett seemed more interested

to digest, which left Everett

to be at Karen’s throat?”

up

“She’s just…. different from

wooing any woman. None of them

was as if she

she’s different?”

if the women were

Dorothy’s friend, and she

1. in.

Dorothy if I got together with Karen,” Jeffrey said, ruffling his hair in frustration. “But… heck, I’ll be honest with you. Life

wanting to go back home during the phone call. Was that because you thought Karen had left?”

was too good to stoop to her level, but no one answered. The receptionist said she’d been

to the home

“Yeah.”

about to,