Chapter 268 Willing to Suffer for Her
While looking at the picture on the newspaper that a reporter took, Andy recognized a few big shots as his face paled.
“What the f*ck is wrong with you? How many times have I told you that a small company like theirs is not a threat to us? You don’t have to waste your time laying traps on them!”
Amidst his brother’s scoldings, Andy looked embarrassed. “I really didn’t know that Courtney has such a powerful background. Britney only told me that she’s Alexander’s ex-girlfriend. I thought that there’s nothing special about Courtney—”
“Britney?” The middle-aged man’s expression immediately changed. “Are you still hooking up with the celebrity? I think you must be out of your mind.”
Without waiting for Andy’s explanation, he slammed the door and left after saying, “You better take the next two days off to reflect on your wrongdoings at home.”
With a loud thud, silence fell on the office once again.
Andy tore the newspaper on the table into pieces and threw it into the trash.
His phone suddenly rang at that moment. After seeing the caller, his face darkened as he immediately accepted the call. “You still have the nerve to call me? Haven’t you seen the news?”
The other end paused for a moment, but her soft and gentle voice soon rang. “Vice-president Greene, you don’t have to be furious. Isn’t it a good thing that you know more about your future competitor’s background through this incident?”
“Good?” Andy snorted coldly. “Do I look like an idiot to you? Do you know how my brother yelled at me?”
“It’s fine if he merely yelled at you. It doesn’t hurt you at all, right? Look at me now—I’m also being scolded by you, but I’m still trying to gently appease you.”
Upon hearing that, he froze for a moment before his fury slowly subsided. “I’m in a bad mood now. Where are you? I’ll go and pick you up.”
“I’ve already prepared everything for you. Let’s meet up at the pub outside Melrose City. I’ll wait for you there.”
After he hung up on the phone, he looked completely different from the moment he answered the call. Grabbing his jacket, he happily left the office without any trace of his sullen look after being yelled at. No matter what, Britney is the number one celebrity in the entertainment industry. In just a few words, she’s able to appease me. Even if I have suffered because of her this time, I’m willing to do so.
After the press conference was over, Oliver helped Courtney to fire a few employees who betrayed them; one of them was Martin. Oliver was saving their reputation by asking them to tender their resignation.
The incident had caused a fiasco all over Melrose City, yet it was only the beginning.
Later in the evening, Courtney invited the people who had helped her out at the press conference for dinner at a nearby restaurant. After the event was over, she personally sent Alicia home.
“Courtney, if you want to handle the Hunter Group, I won’t stop you. I know very well that I can’t stop you, but I have to warn you that the Hunter Group is like an empty tree that has been eaten up by termites. The old fellows in the group are all up to no good. After you are there, the first thing you have to do is to throw them out.”
Alicia gave some advice in the car. From her expression, it was clear that she did not want Courtney to be involved in the messy affairs of the Hunter Group.
However, since everything had arrived to that stage, there was no other option to win the people’s hearts back.
“I know. I’m not a kid anymore. Don’t worry, Aunt Alicia.” Courtney held Alicia’s hands with warmth. “Thanks for helping me out today. Actually, I used to hate you before. I’m very sorry about that.”
Back then, when her grandfather passed away, Alicia was the person who chased Courtney out of the hospital and dumped all her belongings at the Hunter Family. The harsh look on her face was Courtney’s worst nightmare for years.
However, when she recalled the past incidents many years later, she realized that the person who suffered from the most pain was Alicia herself.
Susan’s involvement with Courtney’s parents’ marriage had caused many tragedies—Cecilia died from excessive blood loss, Alicia lost her first and only child as well as her chances to have children, and her grandfather died from depression.
Even though the culprit behind all that mess was already dead, she still could not forgive the person.
“Don’t worry about it. You have nothing to be sorry about.” Alicia frowned. “The only people who should be sorry are Lucian and that shameless b*tch. If your mother is as tough as you, perhaps the subsequent incidents might not have happened.”
The impression that Courtney had was that people would use the adjectives ‘gentle’ and ‘kind’ each time they mentioned her mother. However, someone who was gentle and kind was also soft and weak. That was also the reason why her mother could not even handle a single blow.
“By the way, have you found that woman?” Alicia asked.
Courtney shook her face. “Since there aren’t any issues with the Hunter Group’s taxes, the cops are not going to arrest her. Perhaps after some time, when she realizes that the Hunter Group does not have any issues, she might return on her own accord.”
“That woman is a disaster.” At the mention of Susan’s name, Alicia’s face darkened once again.
“Aunt Alicia, don’t think too much about her. It’s not worth it to let someone irrelevant affect your mood.”
The car slowly came to a stop in front of the gates at the vintage mansion built with red bricks. Then, a man’s low voice rang from the driver seat.
“We have arrived.”
Alicia glanced outside the window and looked at the back of the driver’s head. She was half-smirking as she said, “I’m leaving now. Drive carefully on your way home.”
“Got it.”
Courtney waved to Alicia while watching her aunt leave. After the door was closed, the car started to move again as it left the mansion.
Once they arrived home, Oliver stood right at the entrance as soon as the door was opened. He stretched out his hands while hungrily looking at them. “Where’s my food?”
Courtney and Alexander exchanged looks with each other before she asked in confusion, “What food?”
Upon hearing that, Oliver immediately flared up and answered with a dark face, “My dinner! After the press conference ended, you did not allow me to join the dinner and insisted that I return here to look after the two kids. Where is the dinner that you promised me? I’m starving to death, so please don’t tell me that you have nothing for me!”
“Didn’t you tell me that Oliver himself refused to join the dinner?” Courtney looked at Alexander. “What’s wrong with you?”
“I knew that you were up to no good!” Oliver immediately turned to glare at Alexander angrily. “Alexander Duncan, with me here, I forbid you to enter this house! You don’t even allow me to eat! If you enter, I wonder what might happen in the future!”
“Oh, really?” Alexander looked at Oliver. “During dinner, Josh found a penultimate university student from the Public Security University in Campus City who’s helping with the security tasks. He also invited students who are studying Data Mining and Countersurveillance—”
Upon hearing that, Oliver’s expression immediately changed as he interrupted, “I’m just joking. I myself didn’t want to join the dinner.”
With that, Courtney looked at him in confusion. “Why did you change your expression so quickly?”
In embarrassment, he replied, “It’s nothing. I’m just cracking a joke because I’m dying from boredom.”
While they were speaking, Alexander had already changed his shoes at the entrance. When he walked past both of them, he threw a bag into Oliver’s arms before he headed to the living room.
Oliver froze before he lowered his head to look at the bag—it contained takeaways of various dishes.
