The CEO’s Hidden Love Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires

Chapter 509

Jeffrey could feel his blood boil at the mere utterance of that name.

“What’s the deal? You guys used to be thick as thieves, right?”

“She kidnapped Dorothy’s kid and had it out for Dorothy. When she didn’t get her loved one at last, she just stabbed Everett in a fit of madness and planned to go down with him!”

“You mean Heather?”

“Who else would I be talking about?”

Silence hung on Lane’s end of the line, and just as Jeffrey was about to conclude the call had dropped, Lane rushed out, “Something’s come up, gotta run.”

The abrupt end to the call only added to Jeffrey’s irritation.

On Lane’s end, his grip on his phone was precarious. He feared Jeffrey might discern something from his demeanor, so he hung up out of panic.

Corporation wouldn’t be sending a junior secretary to handle partnership meetings, and they wouldn’t have locked down the City Hospital. Therefore, he assumed that Everett

vanished afterwards, had gone to Everett’s

a million years imagined that Heather, of all people, would be the mastermind behind it all. So she really had the gall to kidnap Dorothy’s daughter… but she had sworn to him that she wouldn’t lay a finger

he couldn’t get through to Dorothy; Heather, that madwoman, must’ve spilled

and hurled his phone. The screen was instantly shattered and blanking

car keys, he stormed

which was just like the silence he got from calling her number.

to act. He had a whole plan laid out and all Heather needed to

secretary waiting anxiously at his doorstep. She was obviously bearing bad

the car, Lane approached,

I had to come. Disaster struck. The president of the

hear

such a hit that they are not even worth a tenth

years of toil had evaporated overnight into meaningless numbers.