The CEO's Hidden Love: Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires novel Chapter 451

Seeing Everett charge toward her like a bull seeing red, Heather had her lips ghostly pale with fear.

Luckily, her reflexes were quick. She snatched a dagger from the nearest man and pressed it to Dorothy's throat.

"Everett, take one more step and I'll take Dorothy down with me!"

Everett's eyes blazed with a bloodthirsty fury. At the sight of Dorothy, barely clinging to life with wounds all over, he was ignited with a primal desire to flay Heather alive.

"Let her go!"

"Not a chance!" Heather tightened her grip on Dorothy's neck, and the dagger glinted menacingly against her carotid artery. "Move any closer, and Dorothy meets her maker!"

Everett halted his advance abruptly, and his posse swiftly encircled Heather.

Kevin rushed in, took stock of the situation, and immediately tended to Karen and Abigail before having them whisked away to the hospital.

He knew Heather wasn't escaping today.

"Everett, even now, you're still blinded by that tramp! Can't you see what I've done for you?" Heather's laugh was maniacal. As she moved, the dagger sliced Dorothy's skin, drawing fresh blood that stained the blade and Heather's hand.

The pain seemed to jolt Dorothy back to consciousness.

This was the Dorothy that Everett couldn't bear to even scold.

"I want to hurt you too! But I can't! Everett, I can't bear it!" Heather screamed, tears streaming down her face. "It's all because of her, Dorothy! You won't even look at me. Everett, if she's gone, we can be together!"

"Don't touch her! Heather, whatever issues we have, we'll settle them between us. Just let Dorothy go!" Everett was stern in his voice, hoping to calm crazy Heather.

He feared that in a moment of madness, she would plunge the dagger into Dorothy's throat.

"Settle this?" Heather looked up at him, her eyes filled with anger, but even more with disappointment and obsession. "Fine, then I want you to propose to me right here, right now, on your knees!"