The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 513

Everett couldn’t care less about curiosity and gossip. His concerns were far more immediate.

“Hey, you’re not mad at me over this whole mess, are you?” he asked tentatively.

She didn’t reply.

“Jeffrey is always so impulsive and he’s a man who speaks before he thinks like he’s never grown up. Don’t be mad, okay? He picked on your friend, but I’ll make it right.”

Dorothy couldn’t help but smile at the hasty earnestness in his eyes.

“I never said I’d drag you into this! I know my bestie. She can handle herself.”

With a mouth like Karen’s, she could run circles around Jeffrey in a verbal showdown.

The moment Everett mentioned he was treating her to dinner, Karen was all in.

Who could say no to a feast of delicacies?

And Everett was nothing if not sincere, even arranging a limo to pick her up from the hotel.

bag of groceries and stepping inside, Karen gave a dry smile, “Just swung by a fruit stand. I couldn’t understand a word they were saying so I just grabbed what I could recognize. Can’t visit a patient empty–handed,

all about proper etiquette!

get used to the sudden etiquette of yours.”

to Everett’s hospital bed, “Mr. Lopez, feeling

“Yeah,” Everett nodded.

I can

mid–sentence, slamming the

good to Dorothy,” Everett smoothly carried on the conversation.

Mr. Lopez. It’s all one–sided. Dorothy never

something even more untoward, she quickly cut in, “Everett was thinking of showing you around

agree

not

not him,” Everett assured her with a wry smile. “Don’t worry.”

Mr. Lopez. I’ll go with it as long as the guide

Everett could respond, his

as the caller ID popped up–it was

answered and could clearly feel Jeffrey was outside, for the whoosh of