The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 410

“Amanda, when I saved you back then, I didn’t think too much about it. I just wanted to protect Everett’s mother because I knew he would be heartbroken if something happened to you.”

“That’s why I’ve always believed you’re the one who truly understands the big picture and loves my son the most! I don’t acknowledge all those other girls, like Dorothy! When I was kidnapped, if those thugs had really taken those

compromising photos and used them to blackmail the Lopez Corporation, our family would have been like lambs to the slaughter! My husband and I…”

“Please, Amanda, stop!” Heather interrupted quickly. “There’s no need to dredge up the past! I have never regretted saving you, even if it meant that Everett and I wouldn’t end up together.”

The more Heather spoke, the more guilt seeped into Amanda’s heart.

Those thugs were after one thing, that was to humiliate Amanda, to take those lewd photos to threaten the Lopez Corporation! If they had succeeded, Amanda couldn’t bear to think how she and her husband would have faced each other, let alone how the Lopez family would have been manipulated by others!

in recklessly offering herself in exchange for Amanda, claiming

that pictures of Everett’s fiancée might be even more damaging, so

looked when she was rescued battered and bruised, her clothes torn to shreds, blood

the inhumane torture Heather had endured during those hours.

incident was completely hushed up by the Lopez family, Amanda still insisted on Heather as her daughter–in–law, because it

it. Trust me, Heather. I’ll clear every obstacle

“Okay.”

the boardroom of

the high–profile shareholders, were gathered

had peaked, and the choice lay between expanding overseas or scooping up even the smaller investment opportunities within the

in leaving some breathing room for domestic investment

felt that it was

but I’ve heard you’ve just