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.

junior secretary to handle partnership meetings, and they wouldn’t have locked down the

vanished afterwards, had gone to Everett’s

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 on Dorothy or her kids!

to Dorothy; Heather, that madwoman, must’ve spilled

could I be so stupid?!” Lane cursed and hurled his phone. The

and car keys, he stormed over to Heather’s place.

which was just like the silence he got from calling her

for it. He was being sidelined before he even had a chance to act.

deflated, Lane saw his secretary waiting anxiously at his doorstep. She was

car,

“I couldn’t reach you by phone, so I had to come. Disaster struck. The president of the Lopez Corporation tanked East Star Enterprises‘ stock to rock bottom and announced its dissolution out of

shocked to hear what

even worth a tenth of what they were

all his years of toil had