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.

a pillow for Jeffrey. He would have preferred a fiery exchange of words to this polite restraint, which felt almost the stiffness she showed the

to snap back, but Everett cut in with a frosty

“Right.”

everyone lost in their own thoughts; though Dorothy and

to digest, which left Everett and Jeffrey

have to be at Karen’s

had picked up on the tension

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

any woman. None of them would so much as raise their voice to him,

It was as if she couldn’t speak without challenging

she’s

intervene–except when it came to Karen. She was Dorothy’s friend, and she had helped raise the kids for years. He

face Dorothy if I got together with Karen,” Jeffrey said, ruffling his hair in frustration. “But… heck, I’ll be honest with you. Life seems dull without someone like her to

go back home during the phone

went to knock 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 I