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.

have preferred a fiery exchange of words to this polite restraint, which felt almost the stiffness she showed the first time

to snap back, but Everett cut in with a frosty reminder, “Let’s eat, shall

“Right.”

everyone lost in their own thoughts; though Dorothy

meal to digest,

have to be at Karen’s throat?”

usually oblivious Everett had picked up

slumped on the couch, pouting. “She’s just…. different

women chased after. He never had trouble wooing any woman.

was as if she

because she’s different?”

it came to Karen. She was

anything. I know you wouldn’t be able to face Dorothy if I got together with

mentioned wanting to go back home during the phone call. Was that

on her door, thinking I was too good to stoop to her level, but no one answered. The receptionist said she’d been picked up, and