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.

sensed something was off with Everett; otherwise, the Lopez 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

vanished afterwards, had gone to Everett’s side.

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 on

get through to Dorothy; Heather, that

be so stupid?!” Lane cursed and hurled his phone. The screen was

keys,

no one answered his relentless knocking or the doorbell, which was just like

before he even had a chance to act. He had a whole

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

car, Lane approached, “What’s

Disaster struck. The president of the Lopez Corporation tanked East Star Enterprises‘ stock to rock bottom and announced its dissolution out

was shocked to hear what

that they are not even worth a tenth of what they were when you

toil had evaporated overnight into meaningless numbers.