Chapter 59 Tearing Up Her Mouth
“All right, I shall stop disturbing you guys.” Scott suddenly got up, producing some sound as his chair rubbed against the floor. Looking at Courtney with a smile, he said, “You’re welcome to have fun at my place when you have the time, Courtney. I’ll get someone to arrange for the wedding. If there’s anything, you can just contact me directly.”
Courtney had a lot to say, but she couldn’t utter a word at this moment. She watched as Scott left, leaving her and Alexander as they looked at each other helplessly.
“Let me send you home.”
After finishing their lunch, Alexander offered to send Courtney home. Courtney wanted to turn him down, but it occurred to her that they should clear the air about what had happened on this day. It would be better to talk in the car since it wasn’t convenient for them to speak at Alexander’s home with the housekeepers walking around, so she didn’t refuse his offer.
The atmosphere in the car was quite stuffy as it drove out of the villa area.
Courtney looked at her cell phone and scrolled her Facebook with her head down, but in reality, she was reading nothing.
Suddenly, Alexander’s voice rang. He asked her naturally, “Should I turn right at the intersection ahead?”
Courtney was startled for a few seconds before she nodded. “Uh, yeah.”
The car pulled up at the traffic lights before turning at the intersection, and there were 60 seconds to go before the lights changed to green. Grabbing the steering wheel with his long and thin fingers, Alexander tapped his index finger on the steering wheel every once in a while.
He suddenly asked, “I’d like to ask you something about last night.”
The feel of Courtney’s skin seemed to be still lingering in his hand, compelling him to spend the entire morning comparing her with the lady he encountered six years ago. Such a feeling was so familiar to him that he couldn’t forget it.
“Last night…” Courtney straightened up abruptly and clenched her fists. She continued stiffly, “You don’t have to take what happened last night to heart.”
Alexander stopped tapping his index finger on the steering wheel.
“Well.” Courtney sniffed and pretended to be unconcerned. “We were drunk, and we’re both adults, so we don’t have to take this too seriously. I know you’re going to marry Britney, so you don’t have to think there’s something because of this accident. I-I won’t ask you to take responsibility; I’m not that kind of person.”
Alexander tightened his grip on the steering wheel, forming an indentation on its genuine leather cover in the shape of his fingers. He looked unmoved, but his tone of voice suddenly turned chilly. “Get out of the car.”
“Huh?”
“Didn’t you say that you don’t need me to take responsibility? You may get out of the car now so that we don’t get misunderstood.” His chilly voice reverberated in the car with a barely perceptible hint of anger.
Courtney finally came to her senses.
Standing at the intersection, she held her handbag and watched as Alexander’s car sped off. At last, she could no longer assume the feigned unconcerned expression on her face, and she sat down on a corner of the raised flower bed as if she had lost heart.
Just what the hell is going on?
“What? Did she spend the night at Royal Park Manor?”
All of a sudden, Britney turned around to look at the assistant behind her with a look of disbelief in the backstage dressing room of a show.
Her sudden movements startled the makeup artist; as her hands trembled, the lip brush left a blood-red lipstick mark on the corner of Britney’s mouth. The makeup artist hurriedly apologized and said, “I’m sorry! I didn’t mean it…”
Britney snatched the lip brush out of the makeup artist’s hand and threw it to the floor roughly. She snapped, “Where did you find this person? She doesn’t even know how to apply makeup! Do you want to be fired?”
At the sight of the scene, Jason—her talent agent—immediately apologized to Britney while shooting a glance at the makeup artist, who then gritted her teeth and left the dressing room with a look of grievance.
“Britney, you have to appear on the show in a while, so please control your temper a little. Let’s hurry up and get your makeup done.”
“Who cares about the show?” Filled with anger, Britney glared at Jason. “Didn’t you hear what Millie said just now? The woman named Courtney spent the night at Royal Park Manor shortly after I left. Furthermore, Alexander carried her back himself! There were only the two of them in the villa—do you think I’d believe you when you say that nothing happened?”
“Didn’t you go there yesterday as well?” Jason was puzzled at the mention of this. “Why did you come back afterward?”
“Speaking of this, I wish I could have torn that d*mn woman into pieces!” Britney slammed the dressing table, her face darkening. “The woman in Alex’s home yesterday was simply arrogant. She knew who I was, yet she had the nerve to boast shamelessly by saying that Alex was just playing around with me! I will tear up her mouth if I meet her again!”
Confused by her repeated mentions of ‘the woman’, Jason couldn’t distinguish whether the woman Britney was referring to was the same person. After glancing at his wristwatch, he hastily urged, “You should sit down and have your makeup fixed no matter which woman stands in your way again. It’s time to appear on the show; we’ve made so many apologies when you left the show abruptly yesterday.”
Britney clenched her fists, but she knew as well that it was useless to be angry; what had been done couldn’t be undone. It was pointless for her to go back right now, so she could only get her job done first before slowly finding a way to deal with Courtney.
I was right to be alarmed at the beginning. This woman already has a daughter, yet she’s so capable of seducing a man. She isn’t as simple as she seems, she thought to herself.
Meanwhile, Alexander went back to the CEO’s office at Sunhill Enterprise’s headquarters after a briefing in the morning.
Josh gave a report on the 100th-anniversary celebrations before asking, “The decorations can officially begin next Monday, but Miss Hunter mentioned that decorating the event hall during the day would surely cause a drop in Sunhill Hotel’s recent performance, and there might be lots of complaints from the guests by then. Do you want to consider telling Miss Hunter to do the decorations during the night instead?”
“There’s no need for that.” Alexander raised his left hand slightly before shaking his fingers. “There will be more complaints if the decorations are done at night since the guests will be disturbed by the noise. Her time allocation is right, plus the lobby’s decoration will be carried out in different areas during the daytime, so the impact won’t be huge. There’s no need to be worried, so just let her do it. You just have to report the progress on time.”
“Yes, President Duncan.” Only then did Josh realize Courtney’s purpose in doing the decorations during the daytime, so he admired her a little from the bottom of his heart.
“By the way, I’d like to ask you something.”
“Please ask, President Duncan.”
Alexander’s eyes darkened. “Where is the lady who acted as the surrogate mother six years ago right now?”
“Surrogate mother?” Josh was startled for a moment; he didn’t understand why Alexander had suddenly brought up such an old story. After a moment’s hesitation, he responded reverently, “She’s in Austria. Her father died of cancer shortly after she took the money back then, so she was sent to the airport to further her studies in Austria according to the instructions of Louis, the butler. She married a local there three years ago after finishing her Master’s degree.”
“Why are you so clear about it?”
“She’s Little Master’s birth mother, after all. I have been keeping an eye on her all the time in case you ask about her one day, Young Master.”
Josh was a little nervous. Alexander never instructed him to do this, but he had grown accustomed to taking more details into consideration while doing things after working for Alexander for seven years.
Alexander didn’t suspect that there was something wrong with Josh’s answer. Josh had been his close aide since he took over Sunhill Enterprise. Josh and Louis, who used to be his butler, were in charge of having the surrogate mother arranged back then. If there was something wrong with the lady who acted as the surrogate mother back then, Josh wouldn’t have kept it secret from him.
Josh wouldn’t have hid such a secret if anything went wrong, so it meant that Josh probably had no idea about this.
In other words, Louis was the only person who knew the inside story.
Therefore, Louis’s sudden resignation and retirement after sending Jordan to Alexander’s side back then seemed increasingly abrupt and suspicious to Alexander.
“Go to Armskirk Town to look for Louis and bring him to me. I have something to ask him.”
