Chapter 101 What Have I Done?
Courtney’s entire face flushed red. “You—”
“Tell me—what have I done?” Alexander’s calm composure did not change as he casually walked to her with a glint in his eyes. “Otherwise, you can demonstrate it yourself. I don’t mind.”
A panicked Courtney did not watch where she was going and continued to stagger backward. Then, her legs bumped into something and caused her to lose her balance. As she was falling backward, her hands reached out to grab the nearest thing that she could find.
In an instant, she realized that she had grabbed Alexander’s tie. When they fell together, she was already preparing herself to push him away.
However, the thunder outside roared loudly. Amidst the thunder and lightning, everything became pitch black after sizzling sounds were heard. Courtney let out a small scream and hid in the slightly cool embrace in front of her as she jolted.
At that moment, a commotion was stirring outside.
“Why is everything dark?”
“The electricity has been tripped?”
The staff were trying to calm everyone down. “Everyone, don’t be afraid and wait inside your rooms. The main switch is down, but we are fixing it now. Everything will soon return to normal.
Amidst the chaos, only Courtney’s room was completely silent—the door had blocked them from the commotion outside as silence filled the entire room.
In fact, she could even hear Alexander’s breathing in front of her.
Meanwhile, he could smell the sweet perfume on her.
Their hearts pounded loudly as their chests heaved with each other. It was dark and they were too close to each other for comfort.
As the air gradually became thinner between them, she could not help thinking about the kiss and forgot to push him away due to her thoughts being in a mess.
“You still haven’t told me what I did to you that night.” A low voice rang beside her ear, but she was groggy, as if her soul had left her body.
“What?”
“What I did to you that night was way more restrained than now.”
With that, his cool lips sealed her lips before she returned to her senses.
“Umm…”
His gentle kisses fell on her lips and gently sucked on her sweetness. Then, he kissed her chin, neck and her shoulder that had been exposed some time ago, even though she did not know exactly when it happened.
Courtney’s blouse was in a disarray after Alexander opened the buttons one by one. The cool wind blew through the window, but none of them felt cold. Instead, a surge of heat flowed through them. She knew that she was awake, but her body was out of her control, as if she had been intoxicated with alcohol.
As he grabbed the hem of her skirt and was about to lift it up, there was a flicker of light in the room. After a few sizzles, the entire room was completely bright again.
At that moment, Courtney quickly pushed him away as if she had returned to her senses. After looking at him for two seconds, she frantically ran away and locked herself in the bathroom.
Alexander fell back into the couch and resentfully looked at the lamp after she pushed him away, as if he was blaming it for the interference.
Then, he looked at the direction of the bathroom and recalled what had happened with a slight confusion in his eyes.
Once again, he had confirmed that her body did not reject him at all and complimented him a lot instead.
After locking herself into the bathroom, Courtney opened the tap. As the water flowed through the tap, she splashed it on her face and patted her cheeks to calm her raging heat. What happened to me earlier? Have I gone crazy? I almost did it with him again!
At that moment, someone knocked on the door.
“Sir, because there were some problems with the electricity just now, the madam of this hostel is cooking some dumplings as an apology. She would like to invite everyone for a round of supper downstairs.”
“Alright. Got it.”
Courtney heard the conversation between Alexander and the young receptionist. She stood in the bathroom and blankly looked at the door. In no time, he indeed knocked on the bathroom door.
“Just now—”
“I heard that.” She quickly interrupted him. “You can go ahead. I’ll join you later.”
The movements outside immediately stopped. She wondered whether it was her illusion, but she seemed to have heard him chuckling to himself.
After taking 10 minutes to mentally prepare herself, she opened the bathroom door and walked outside.
He did not wait for her. It seemed that he had gone downstairs for supper.
After she tidied the pillows and the couch, she thought, Seeing the rain today, it’s impossible to look for another place to stay. I’m afraid we have to settle with what we have right now.
At that moment, it was quite lively on the ground floor of the hostel with the tourists around. They were in groups of three or five—some played Among Us and other card games while others played guitars and sang.
Alexander was the odd one out—he sat in the corner and read the finance newspaper of the day with a pen in his hands while writing on it.
After taking a deep breath, Courtney sat opposite him and avoided bringing up what had happened earlier before feigning to ask lightheartedly, “You’re already off work, yet you are still so serious? Reading the finance news?”
He raised his head and looked at her indifferently. “You must have thought that I’m someone who doesn’t have fun, haven’t you?”
‘Well, do you?” She highly doubted that.
Alexander placed the newspaper on the table and nudged it toward her. “It’s not that I don’t have fun; it’s just that my entertainment requires me to use my brains, as compared to what you usually play with.”
The newspaper showed a sudoku section that was already filled out. So, he was writing in the newspaper earlier because he’s playing this.
Courtney smiled—she did not mind about the earlier incident after being taunted by him.
“It’s just a brain teaser, yet you described it as if it’s the greatest game ever. We also need to use intelligence while playing Among Us and other card games, okay?” Since they are all games, there’s no need to rank them.
However, Alexander disagreed. “Is that so? If three people are playing a deck of cards and don’t consider memorizing the card sequence while shuffling it, you can already guess what cards the other two are holding when you get yours. To me, such games don’t require any brain power at all.”
“You memorize the cards?” Courtney asked doubtfully. “I heard that there are people who could guess what cards the other people have. However, I have never heard of anyone who could correctly guess what cards the other people are holding right after they have received their cards. This is impossible.” Before anyone starts playing, how can anyone correctly guess the cards that the other players are holding?
“Well, I’m not forcing you to believe me anyway.” Alexander arched his eyebrows, looking down at her as though he had won.
Upon seeing his demeanour, Courtney felt rather annoyed. Hence, she looked around and found that two girls at the neighboring table kept throwing secret glances at Alexander. Then, her eyes brightened. “Is it just the both of you? Would you like to play some card games?”
Shocked that they were noticed, both girls blushed and nodded.
Then, Courtney glanced at Alexander before challenging him. “It’s nothing if it’s all words. Prove it, President Duncan. I’m curious.”
He did not reject her request. As a result, they joined both tables and took a deck of cards from the reception. After they teamed up, it so happened that she was his opponent.
After they shuffled the cards, she almost laughed out loud after looking at the cards she had. If I am able to get rid of a single card, I will definitely win this round since the card has a bigger value.
