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 that

figured Dorothy, who vanished afterwards, had

So she really had the gall to kidnap

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

it, how could I be so stupid?!” Lane cursed and hurled his phone. The screen was instantly

his suit jacket and car keys, he

his relentless knocking or the doorbell, which was just like

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

back home, deflated, Lane saw his secretary waiting anxiously at his

the car, Lane approached,

“I couldn’t reach you by phone, so I had to come. Disaster struck. The president of the Lopez Corporation

was shocked to hear what she said!

a hit that they are not even worth a tenth of

meant all his years of toil had evaporated overnight into meaningless numbers.