One Night Surprise (Courtney and Alexander)
Chapter 251

One Night Surprise Chapter 251

Chapter 251 No Room For Others Between Them

Scott glanced at her. “Is that so? In that case, I won’t insist on you staying. Are you still coming overtonight?”

“Yes.” Courtney nodded, concealing the sorrow in her eyes as she lowered her head. “Tina, let’s go.”

When they were about to leave, Jordan suddenly tugged at the corner of her clothes and cried withmuch difficulty, “Mommy…”

The atmosphere at the dining table instantly froze, but Alexander seemed indifferent.

It was not the first time that Jordan called her ‘Mommy’ although he seldom addressed her as such infront of others. Alexander, who seemed unfazed by the incident, hoped to see how she dealt with thesituation.

Nevertheless, Scott’s expression became cold. “Jordan, you shouldn’t address a random person as‘Mommy’.”

Jordan, who suddenly felt aggrieved, tightly held onto Courtney’s clothes without any intention torelease it—even if his little hand was reddened. He sobbed, “Great-Grandpa is bad. I want Mommy…”

At that moment, the entire atmosphere in the dining room was indescribable as the maids looked atone another with complex expressions.

“Jordan.” Courtney’s tone revealed that she was caught between a rock and a hard place. In fact, shehoped that she was able to just take Jordan away from there at that point of time. Why are we putting a5-year-old child through all these complicated situations? “If it is possible, I would like to take Jordan tomy place for two days.” She forced herself to ask for something that even she herself thought wasimpossible.

“No. Do you think that it will be appropriate for Jordan to just leave with an outsider?” Scott’sexpression was cold.

Upon hearing that, Jordan cried even louder.

Scott snapped at Alexander. “Alex, take Jordan away and calm him down!”

Alexander sat firmly on his seat without budging. There was an impassive expression on his face evenafter he was scolded by Scott. He shrugged his shoulders and calmly replied, “I can’t calm him down.Nobody is able to calm him down when he starts crying.”

“You are trying to piss me off, aren’t you?” Scott’s body trembled in fury. He immediately rose to his fullheight, approached Courtney and grabbed Jordan’s arm before tearing the young child away from herembrace. With a cold expression, he instructed, “Miss Hunter, you may leave now.”

No matter how reluctant she felt, she had to force herself to leave.

Her heart ached when she saw Jordan crying his eyes out until he had breathing difficulties.

After leaving the Duncans’ ancestral home, Courtney buckled up her seat belt and drove away fromtheir house.

Tina’s sobs were heard from the backseat. “Mommy, Jordan cried so badly. Are we really not going tocare about him?”

Courtney fixed her gaze in front, but her fingers were clutching the steering wheel for dear life. “It is notthat I don’t care about him; it’s just that I am not in the place to care for him now. Once the lawyer hiredby your daddy returns to the country, I will replace a way to bring Jordan home.”

Tina snuffled and her red eyes made her look like a little rabbit. “Mommy, why did I was with you whenJordan followed Mr. Alexander? Did Daddy and Mommy give Jordan away when he was still a baby?”

A child’s mind was simple and it had a rather fixed way of thinking. Without much life experience, theydid not know that there could be one too many coincidences in life.

Tina had always thought that she and Jordan were both Elijah and Courtney’s children, but for somereason, he had left them when he was still a baby.

Courtney did not know how to explain the situation to her. After keeping quiet for a long time, sheexplained in a small voice, “That was because I wasn’t careful enough when I gave birth to you two. Iaccidentally lost Jordan.”

Tina did not reply.

After Courtney left, the dining room in the Duncans’ home was in a state of mess.

Alexander seemed to have decided not to care about everything around him and he had no intention tocalm his own son down. The maids around them were flustered. Jordan bawled even louder; it did notmatter who came close to him and it stopped everyone from having the courage to get near him.

“You guys are useless.” Scott slammed the table. As he also felt disconcerted, he bent over and tried tocoax Jordan. “Jordan, you are a good boy. Please stop crying… Okay?”

Jordan snuffled and his cries came to a sudden halt. Just when everyone thought that Scott hadmiraculously succeeded in calming the boy down, his little hand gave the older man’s face a slap whilehe stomped his foot in fury. “Bad guy!”

Everyone in the room was aghast as their eyes widened. Even the butler, Harry, was shocked as hewatched the scene before his eyes in disbelief.

Scott had been thriving in the business world all his life and he gained respect from everyone whereverhe went. Now that he was an extremely old person, he was now embarrassed by his great-grandson

when the latter gave him a slap. It was obvious to everyone that Scott’s expression had darkened.

“Old Master Duncan, Jordan is still young.” Mikayla immediately stood up and tried to console him.

Alexander remained calm. He took a sip of water and placed the glass on the table while he watchedeverything that happened before his eyes indifferently.

Scott took a deep breath with his brows furrowed. After a moment, he bent over again and forced asmile on his face. “Yes, I’m the bad guy. Jordan, you can whack me as much you like if you are able tocalm down after hitting me. I will not be angry at you and I won’t cry as well. Therefore, Jordan, pleasestop crying and you have to finish your meal.”

Everyone in the house was astounded. Even Harry’s eyes widened at his reaction.

As expected, Scott was practically unprincipled when it came to pampering his great-grandson. It wasnot obvious in the past because they had not spent much time together and they never had toexperience such a peculiar moment.

“I want Mommy…” Jordan sobbed. His little hands hit Scott and pushed him away in resistance whilehe himself took two steps back. The boy’s tear-stained face seemed to have made him look extremelypitiful.

Scott sighed. He finally understood what Alexander meant by ‘nobody is able to calm him down whenhe starts to cry’. Nobody except Courtney is really able to calm the child down.

The maid took Jordan away. Although he continued to cry, at least the people in the dining hall had apeace of mind without him crying in front of them.

However, everyone had lost their appetite to eat by then.

Now that the atmosphere in the dining hall regained its silence, the aura seemed to be stiffer. Thetactful Mikayla cast a glance at everyone and rose to her full height. “Old Master Duncan, Alex, I’m fulland I have something else to attend to. I shall take my leave now.”

Scott politely uttered, “You are full after eating so little? There are still some dishes in the kitchen thathaven’t been served.”

“It’s fine. I have a small appetite and I’m on a diet now. Let’s chat again some other time.” She politelysmiled. “By the way, I have something else to do tonight, so I won’t be coming over later.”

With that, Scott nodded and Mikayla left the Duncan Residence.

After getting into the car, she tapped open the call log on her phone and stared at the number for sometime before mustering the courage to make a call. “Hello, it’s me—Mikayla.”

Before the person on the other end of the phone could even respond, Mikayla continued speaking, “Areyou free? I noticed that you didn’t have a proper meal earlier. Let’s have lunch together. I don’t meananything; I just have something I wish to discuss with you.”

The call lasted for a short while. After hanging up on the call, she picked a kraft paper bag from thepassenger seat and took out a parentage testing report. Her initially cold eyes were tainted with shredsof darkness.

Life was full of uncertainties. She initially thought that Britney had lied to her, but when the evidencewas presented in front of her, she had no choice but to believe in the existence of fate in the world. Thetwo people, who had been brought together by fate, had no room for a third person between them.