One Night Surprise

Chapter 42 She Is Not an Outsider

Early Saturday morning, Courtney was still sleeping when she was dragged out of bed by Tina.

“Mommy, it’s time to wake up.”

Courtney looked at the bedside clock in a daze and said desperately, “Tina, it’s only 7.00AM! What are you doing?”

Tina tugged on one of Courtney’s arms and puffed her cheeks. “Mommy, this is your first time going to Mr. Alexander’s house; don’t you want to dress up properly? Come on—get up, take a shower and change your clothes.”

Courtney hugged the pillow in exasperation.

Why did I give birth to such a shameless daughter who pushes me to any man she sees?

Under Tina’s continuous urges, Courtney put on some simple makeup and took out her usual T-shirt and jeans from the closet. Before she could even put them on, it was dragged away by Tina.

“Why are you wearing this, Mommy?”

“What else would I be wearing?”

“This one.” Tina pulled out a burgundy open-back dress from the closet. “This one is pretty.”

“Are you crazy?” Courtney smacked Tina’s head lightly. “It’s not like we are going to a nightclub—this is a formal dress. We’re just going to play at your classmate’s house; do I really need to put on a formal dress?”

“This one!” Tina suggested again as she tugged on a grey-blue dress. “This one should be fine.”

Courtney took the dress out and examined it for a while—it did look good, but she hesitated for a bit. “Wouldn’t it be inconvenient to wear a dress? Both of you will be jumping up and down.”

“No,” Tina raised her hand and swore. “I promise that I’ll behave today.”

damned if

stomped her feet and refused to let her wear a T-shirt and a pair of jeans. In

at 9.00AM, Alexander’s butler arrived downstairs to take them

had an important meeting in the morning, so he is not

okay,” Courtney

butler was a composed middle-aged man in his early forties, and he drove

master has been in a lot of accidents lately, so he must be feeling quite miserable. He is still wary of everyone even when all the maids in the manor have been completely changed, so I was quite surprised when he invited

me because I

as she thought, Who isn’t surprised? I’m pretty surprised as

It drew Courtney’s attention to her

because of

talk and he’s so unlucky. I’ve never seen a kid more unfortunate than him! Mommy, our school teacher said that people tend to be unluckier during

form of superstition. Which teacher taught you all of this nonsense? You even

helpless, but she

each other for two months, Jordan had already been in two life-threatening accidents. If she hadn’t blocked the chandelier back then, the little guy would have died; had he cracked

just accidents? She began

and got down the car, a small figure ran over

after him. “Little Master, oh dear…

No worries, I’ll take him to wash his

pointed at a direction in the house as she sized Courtney up and followed behind. Then, the maid looked at the little girl behind them and sighed.

walked in the house, Tina looked around with

staircase actually divides into the left, right and center—there’s even

and brush his teeth. “I brought over some snacks that I

Jordan nodded happily.

was taking care of him cried out in panic, “Wait a minute, Miss Hunter! Little Master is not allowed to