One Night Surprise

Chapter 47 Why Would I Fall In Love

“Let’s go, Mommy.”

Courtney came to her senses and watched the rear end of the car disappear from the entrance of the neighborhood and coughed awkwardly.

On the way back, Tina took Courtney’s hand and looked at her knowingly.

“Mommy, did you just fall in love?”

“Who’s fallen in love?” Courtney denied. “Why would I fall in love?”

“You kept staring at Mr. Alexander and wouldn’t leave! Even I felt embarrassed for you, Mommy!”

Courtney blushed scarlet and was speechless.

When they exited the elevator, her expression changed as she remembered what Tina did earlier and grabbed her by the collar. “I haven’t settled the score with you. Who allowed you to casually invite others to our house? Did you ask for my permission?”

Tina struggled and protested. “Let me go, Mommy! My teacher taught us to return the courtesy from others.”

Courtney was speechless.

She didn’t really care if Tina’s teacher had taught them about courtesy. The following Monday, Courtney met Alexander at the entrance when kindergarten had ended; he was also there to pick his kid up.

“I’ll drop you guys off—it’s along the way.”

The black car was parked under the inconspicuous old locust tree. As Courtney saw the busy crowd on the street, she realized that it would be hard to get a cab; the subway would be difficult to squeeze in at this time too, so she agreed.

After arriving at their doorstep, she said politely, “Thanks a lot, President Duncan. If you hadn’t been so busy, I would have invited you to come up for dinner.”

She was obviously being courteous, but she was afraid that Alexander wouldn’t understand.

After all, some people pretended to be oblivious to such courteous words when they wanted to.

“I’m not busy.” Alexander’s voice echoed in her ears. “Since Jordan wants to eat your cooking and has refused to eat properly at home, let’s go.”

he got out of

slap herself. Why did I run my

didn’t I just keep my mouth

Jordan into the house and prepared a table full of food. Although she only used the ingredients she had

quite small, so I hope you don’t

than what I imagined. Stop fussing about—sit down and eat.” Alexander was passing the

him and took off her apron before sitting across

was a little awkward, so she tried to find a topic to talk about as she

“Yeah.”

“What about today?”

“There’s none today.”

“Oh.”

brief and awkward conversation, Courtney decided to shut her mouth and stopped talking—Alexander was not one to

topic to talk about since it’s even more

was quiet for a while as Tina ate and started to chatter about what happened in school. Alexander actually seemed interested and asked questions from time to time while Jordan would nod or

enough, the atmosphere

their meal, Alexander chatted with the two kids in the living room while Courtney washed the dishes in the kitchen. It was almost

leave with Jordan.” Alexander got up from

to leave the house was now useless, and she suddenly felt embarrassed about the whole ordeal. As she walked them to the door, she suggested

hand and nodded

skipped a beat. Why do I think that he hasn’t taken the hint? Don’t tell me that he’s taking

parked in front of the kindergarten under the old locust tree again. Once again, it was on the way and back to Courtney’s house

She felt more uncomfortable as the days went by and finally took Tina to the subway train to avoid passing the old

was not there when they were

were having two dishes and a soup; Courtney passed a plate to Tina. “This one is

usual without Alexander and Jordan’s company. On the other hand, Courtney suddenly felt a

I suddenly feel like the house has become so much quieter without the two equally silent people sitting at

it was

locust

“President Duncan?”

The voice on the other end was deep and

“Yes.”