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.

be sending a junior secretary to handle partnership meetings, and

Dorothy, who vanished afterwards, had

behind it all. So she really had the gall to kidnap Dorothy’s daughter… but she had sworn to him that she wouldn’t

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

how could I be so stupid?!” Lane cursed and hurled

keys, he stormed over to Heather’s place.

one answered his relentless knocking or the doorbell, which was just

stand for it. He was being sidelined before he even had a chance to act. He had a whole plan laid

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

car, Lane approached,

I had to come. Disaster struck. The president of

shocked to hear

even worth a tenth of what they were when

meant all his years of toil had evaporated overnight into