One Night Surprise (Courtney and Alexander)
Chapter 290

One Night Surprise Chapter 290

Chapter 290 I Like You as You Are

Courtney’s words were enough to make Alexander’s eyes focus as he cast an inquiring gaze at her.

“It’s nothing, really. I just don’t want to hear about what happened that day. You don’t need to keep onreminding me about irrelevant things that irrelevant people said.” She kept her head low as sheexplained, her tone light.

She wasn’t afraid that he would believe what Vanessa said about her being sent to sleep with four orfive men by Anna six years ago. Instead, when trying to refute Vanessa, Courtney was afraid that sheherself would accidentally slip up and reveal that she went into the wrong room and bed six years ago.

If Alexander connects the dots of what happened that night six years ago, the consequences will bedevastating.

That was why she wanted this incident to be over quickly.

It’s best not to mention this ever again.

However, Alexander misunderstood her.

As his brows furrowed together, he stared at Courtney, who was still washing the vegetables, for a longtime while his expression grew darker.

After dinner, Courtney went to clean herself up in her room while Alexander made a call on the balcony.On the other side of the line, Josh’s aggrieved voice could be heard.

“President Duncan, it happened six years ago. Also, Anna is already dead so I can’t even replace themastermind behind all this. Where will I replace her men?”

With a dark expression, Alexander remained unfazed as he said coldly, “I will only give you three days.No matter what you do, I want you to replace all the five people without missing out any one of them. Youknow what to do afterward.”

As soon as the call ended, Josh collapsed on the couch while letting out a long sigh.

Back when Alex was working in the enterprise, he didn’t have this much private matters to deal with butnow that he isn’t in the enterprise, he will ask me to handle some matters for him quietly from time totime. Not only that, the tasks also get more difficult one after another. Before I get the time to finish one,there’ll be another one coming. I’m pretty sure my hair will become white before long.

At night, Courtney was held in someone’s arms the moment she went to bed.

For a moment, her back stiffened as she reminded him, “You have a cold. Are you planning to infect meas well?”

“I was cured a long time ago.” A deep voice came from behind her as its owner nuzzled her neck,sending a tingling feeling through her.

“You lied to me?” Immediately, Courtney came back to her senses.

No wonder; and here I was being puzzled as to why can’t he recover from a small cold even after somany days. His fever is gone and he looks quite energetic, yet he is still sick.

Before she could turn her head around, he tightened his arms around her waist. “It’s because I miss it.”

“What do you miss?”

“I miss the times when you were always thinking about me.”

“Have you had a spoonful of honey today?” Courtney tried to look behind her but Alexander’s chinblocked her forehead, preventing her from seeing his eyes.

“Courtney.” Today, he was extremely gentle to a point where even his cold voice had some traces ofwarmth. “I like you as you are. No matter what you experienced or encountered, it will never affect mylove toward you.”

For a moment, Courtney was dumbfounded. However, she wasn’t stupid; she could hear the manyimplications in his words.

When she connected it with what was happening recently, she could easily guess which incident hewas talking about. With little thought, she knew that he might have misunderstood something but shecouldn’t explain it to him.

After a moment of silence, she asked, “Have you ever thought that everyone in this world is actuallywearing a mask? What if the me that you face every day is just my mask?”

“What is it? Are you hiding something from me?” Alexander said in a casual tone, as if he was makinga joke.

However, Courtney knew that he was the last person on earth to crack a joke.

“Most people can’t accept the truth. What if I’m not the person you think I am?”

“There is no doubt that I’m looking at you in your truest form.”

“Are you that confident?”

“Honesty is your biggest strength; other than that, you are nothing in my eyes.”

Before Courtney got the chance to feel happy, her face immediately darkened after hearing what hesaid.

As expected, a person like him will never have a silver tongue. If one were to mistakenly thinkotherwise, there’ll definitely be poison underneath that layer of honey.

After lowering her head to endure his scorn for a while, she bent her knee slightly before suddenlyslamming it upward.

Bang! Someone fell from the bed to the floor while moaning in pain.

“Courtney, what are you doing?” As Alexander held onto his waist, he took a deep breath and gazed atthe bed.

With her back facing him, she wrapped the blanket tightly around herself and growled, “Basically, I’mnothing. That’s the truth.”

Upon listening to her words, Alexander was startled for a moment. As he sat below the bed and gazedat that angry figure, the corners of his eyes crinkled and he revealed a loving smile, all the while feelingresigned.

Early in the morning, Courtney arrived at the Citron factory with Bill to check on the progress.

After checking a batch of goods, Bill patted the thread in his hand. “I’ve checked all of these carefully.Basically, there aren’t any problems. Most of the defective ones have been removed for reworks. Whenthe last batch is finished tonight, we can finally send all of it to Sakura Group’s warehouse.”

“I can see that there’s quite a lot here. You can send the finished goods over first.” Courtney looked atthe pile of products at the corner. “If we wait till tonight, I’m afraid there won’t be enough space here.”

“Why don’t we send those to our warehouse for the time being?” Bill had a serious expression as hecommented, “I want to confirm everything with my team first before sending out the products. If aproblem crops up, it won’t be good for us. Besides, the transportation and warehouse fee doesn’t costmuch.”

However, Courtney still hesitated for a moment as she was inexplicably worried but in the end, she stillnodded her head.

“Alright. It’s safer to check it a few more times. We’ll do it your way.”

“By the way—” Bill lifted his head from the product list. “—Natasha called me just now. She wants meto remind you about the dinner with the Sakura Group tonight. Based on her tone, I assume you’re notgoing?”

“James will be there.” Courtney felt angry the moment she mentioned him. “Don’t you know? Eversince we accepted the order from Sakura Group, I keep on seeing him during business meals. It isobvious that he is showing me how popular he is in Melrose City.”

“What’s wrong? Did he harass you?”

“No.” Courtney furrowed her brows. “If he dares to harass me, I’ll call the cops. He is just trying to talkme into an acquisition.”

“He wants to buy Citron?”

He wants the whole Hunter Group.” Courtney frowned. “He really is greedy. By the looks of it, he isplanning to do something big to impress Mr. Duncan, so he is now targeting the Hunter Group.”

“There are many medium-sized enterprises in Melrose City that are much easier to negotiate to thanthe Hunter Group, so why has he got his eyes on it?” Bill was confused.

“It probably has something to do with Alexander.” Courtney’s frown deepened as she murmured, “Youalso know that Alexander is now the head of finance. James is trying to hit him when he is down—if hecan kick Alexander out of Sunhill Enterprise and buy out the company he works for, it shows thatJames really is capable. He just wants to humiliate Alexander so that he can boast to Mr. Duncan onhow much better he is.”

Her words made the situation sound dangerous and Bill was initially worried about her, but seeing howcalm she looked, he let out a sigh of relief. “You don’t look worried at all,” he commented with a smile.“Do you already have a plan?”

“Of course. I have something up my sleeve too.”