The CEO's Hidden Love: Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires novel Chapter 659

Everett finally replied to Jonathan, [I'll send an escort.]

[Change the children’s surname first!] Jonathan was all about business, not acting unless he was sure about the deal’s success.

Everett snorted dismissively and did not bother replying.

It was a battle of endurance now—a waiting game to see who would lose their cool first.

He knew his parents were all about keeping up appearances. If the press got wind that their grandchildren bore the surname Sanchez instead of Lopez, they would consider it a massive humiliation.

Not that Everett cared much for such vanities.

When Dorothy returned with a bowl of corn chowder, Everett was already buried in work.

His stitches had just been removed, and he really should not have been moving around so much. He needed rest, but Dorothy knew all too well he was not a man who could rest easy.

The man on a video call with Everett was briefing him on a project, Everett's biggest venture for the following year: breaking into the electronics market with a new smartphone brand.

This was not Dorothy's area of expertise. She was so out of her depth that she would not even qualify as a due diligence assistant on this project.

Thus, she pondered momentarily before booting up her laptop and diving into an online tech forum.

The forum was a haven for experts, and despite the casual 'haha's' peppering the posts, the more nonchalant someone seemed, the more likely they were an expert in disguise.

And when it came to these experts, Dorothy's mind went straight to Byte 7.

That was what everyone called him – it seemed no one knew his real name. He was ghostly pale and spoke English fluently, so he most likely was a fellow countryman.

Moments later, Everett finally noticed her.

Pushing his laptop aside, his voice was deep with a nasal edge as he said, "That flash drive you asked Byte 7 to fix, is it done?"

"Not yet."