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.

exchange of words to this polite restraint,

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

“Right.”

with everyone lost in their own thoughts; though Dorothy and Everett seemed more interested in the unfolding

Dorothy after the meal to digest, which left Everett and Jeffrey alone in

always have to

oblivious Everett had picked up on the

pouting. “She’s just…. different

He never had trouble wooing any woman.

It was as if she couldn’t speak without

she’s

relationships. But if the women were willing, it wasn’t his place to intervene–except when it came to Karen. She was Dorothy’s friend, and she had helped raise the

I got together with Karen,” Jeffrey said,

the phone call. Was that because you thought

her door, thinking I was too