Chapter 425

Everett furrowed his brows, tuming around to lock eyes with her, their gazes ensnaring each other in a silent battle.

“I haven’t lied to you”

His gaze was fiery, laden with a sincerity that seemed to threaten to pull Dorothy into its depths entirely!

Now she regretted bringing up such matters with Everett. It was she who found herself unable to end the conversation. Clearing her throat with feigned composure, Dorothy averted her eyes. “Mr. Lopez, let’s stick to business, shall we?”

“Sure, business,” Everett responded. “You’re working late today.”

“Everett…”

Annoyance clenched at Dorothy’s teeth, “What exactly are you playing at? When we divorced, you said that you hated me. What now? Has the mighty Mr. Lopez decided to go back on his word? After being dumped by me once, are you really going to shamelessly chase after me again?”

Perhaps her words were too harsh, as Everett’s handsome face paled slightly, a flicker of rationality returning to his eyes.

He had been thrown off balance by a call from Kenneth.

affectionately about Kenneth coming to pick her up after work had sent a surge of jealousy through his entire

turned back to his seat, his posture rigid.

he seemed to revert to the Everett Dorothy knew –

driving towards the meeting place

to finalizing the deal, and even when dropping Dorothy off at her office, he spared her not a single

as though they had reverted to square

she was just a lowly assistant.

spilling her heart out, Dorothy was

But even though Everett hadn’t remarried, nor loved another, did that mean the barriers

No.

he didn’t know that for all these years, her energy had been focused on getting his

his mother, but his father and everyone who had aided

wouldn’t let any of them off the

visit to the

he wrapped up his company affairs, he headed back to Bay

the car, Langston was engrossed in his phone, a jumble of code refreshing on the screen every few seconds.

was undoubtedly a new virus concocted by his tech–savvy

son.

set aside his phone, leaning forward in

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