One Night Surprise

Chapter 22 Let Tina Come Over and Play

At the end of the day, it simply meant that Jordan had autism.

“I’m sorry—I didn’t mean to pry too much,” said Courtney as she apologized sincerely. “How about this? Let me pay for today’s meal in order to express my sincerest apologies.”

Right then, Alexander came back to his senses and saw her flustered face. He soon realized that his attitude was too harsh. After all, she was the one who saved Jordan’s life. He softened his tone and explained, “It’s not that Jordan can’t talk; he just chooses not to talk.”

Courtney nodded and decided to stop asking questions.

Meanwhile, Jordan sat in the midst of an ocean of colorful balls. When he suddenly lost sight of Tina, he frowned and a panicked look crossed over his face.

“Haha!” All of a sudden, the ocean of balls exploded in front of him as Tina emerged under it and looked at him with a big smile. “I’m here!”

Jordan was startled by her and clamored up; it seemed like this was the first time someone had ever played with him like that.

Tina was taken aback. “What’s wrong?”

Jordan shook his head. Suddenly, he grabbed her hand and pointed at the table—he wanted to go back.

Even though she still wanted to play, Tina saw the look of shock on Jordan’s face and nodded understandingly. “Are you hungry? Let’s go back.”

While they were having their meals, Jordan insisted on sitting next to Courtney despite Alexander’s countless attempts to discourage him. Tina was quite generous as she climbed onto the seat next to Alexander and said, “Since he likes my mommy so much, you should just let him sit next to her. I’ll just sit here.”

Since Courtney seemed fine with it, Alexander let the matter slide and looked at the cute little girl who was sitting next to him; he felt that she was quite pleasing to the eyes. “His name is Jordan,” said Alexander to Tina.

she immediately asked, “That’s right—how old is Jordan? What if he’s

years old. His birthday is a day before the

before the Mid-Autumn Festival? What a coincidence! He

“What about you?”

and looked at Courtney for help. She was unable to remember her own birthday—after

she blurted out that Tina’s birthday

is on the 14th of

didn’t follow up with his question, dismissing it as a

in desserts. When the last dessert arrived, Tina ate it with excitement while Jordan ate in silence, but judging from the clean dessert plate, it was

seem to sit still as they ran to the play area again after finishing their meal. Meanwhile, Courtney and Alexander waited around for a bit. They were calm as they waited in the beginning,

said, “We have to go home now,

from the ocean of balls. “No, I want to play with Jordan for a little while

“Tina Hunter.”

Courtney called Tina by her full name, it meant that

sudden that she completely ignored her mother’s

dragged Tina out. “It’s already late—you have

held by Courtney, so she quickly used the other to grab Alexander’s

while he played outside, so he didn’t care how long Jordan wanted to play. Besides, he seemed to have taken a liking to Tina. With that, he

face at Courtney. “You have nothing to do at home anyway, Mommy. Why don’t you talk to Mr. Alexander and

had a heart attack when she heard those

Hunter, you come down right this instant…

that held onto Alexander’s body, refusing to come down. Courtney usually raised her hands to pat Tina’s buttocks as a threat, but now that the latter had

huffed helplessly. “You’d better put her down, President Duncan. It seems like she’s lacking discipline—I’d have to go