One Night Surprise

Chapter 143 Why Should I Give Up

As they were talking, Alicia came home with the children.

“Mommy!”

The moment Tina saw Courtney, she plunged into her embrace and cheered. On the other hand, Jordan looked exhausted. Dragging his feet, he went straight to the sofa and sank himself into it. He clung to Courtney’s arm, looking as if he was going to fall asleep on the spot.

“This kid is too weak. We only ran for a while. How can he be so tired already? He has been spoiled.” Alicia appeared to be disappointed by his performance.

Slightly speechless, Courtney patted Jordan’s head and explained, “It’s not his fault. He has been weak since young. After that high fever he got when he was younger, he couldn’t speak anymore. Ever since, his physique has been particularly weak.”

“He couldn’t speak because of the high fever?” Alicia put her drinking glass aside and stared at Jordan thoughtfully. “He never spoke after that?”

Courtney knitted her brows. “He didn’t stop talking completely. From what I heard from Alexander, he spoke twice this year.”

“I think there’s more to it.” Alicia gave her a long, deep look. “The Duncan Family is prestigious, and Alexander is the only child. If the family becomes extinct after Alexander, many people will benefit from it. I don’t think this kid can grow up safely.”

Upon hearing that, Courtney was dumbfounded. She looked at her aunt in disbelief.

In the past, her grandfather told her that Alicia had had a child before, but no one knew how she lost it. However, after that incident, William and Stephen, whose families had been close to each other, stopped seeing each other. It was only until Stephen’s divorce and remarriage that both families reconnected.

Courtney did not know much when she was young. Nevertheless, when she looked back at what happened back then, it sent chills down her spine.

Most people would lose their rationale in the face of huge amounts of assets.

realized that her aunt was trying to warn her that the high fever Jordan had during his childhood might not have been an accident. It was highly likely that this kind of ‘accident’ would continue to occur more frequently in the future. Instantly, she remembered the first time

trust anyone.” Alicia’s voice

her sportswear drinking coffee in front of the kitchen counter, her posture was upright even though she was in

Courtney left with her

with the kids, then. I’ll bring them back to see you again when I have

handed her a key. “Don’t

“I can’t accept this.”

so that you would have a place to live when you came back. Don’t go boasting around like Lucian. Why learn to become

scolded by Alicia, but the whole Hunter Family was being criticized as well. Although she did not use any four-letter words, Courtney felt chills on her

into Courtney’s embrace. However, Tina was wide awake. Curiously,

she tell

front of me. I didn’t understand what she was saying, but she was quite scary.” Tina blinked. “But, you said we can’t only listen to one person’s words, so

forehead softly. “What a kid. What I said was not to listen to only one side of the story. This is an adult problem; kids shouldn’t

“What is ‘burden’?”

Courtney was tongue-tied. After a moment of hesitation, she continued solemnly, “Burden is the things in the small school bag you carry to school every day. You need to carry some of the snacks you like to eat and you also need to carry

Courtney and questioned, “Why do I have to give them up? I can ask Mr. Alexander, Mommy,

her answer. In the end, she caressed

was because there was someone else carrying the burden for them. Courtney did not have much hatred for the way her father had abandoned her mother because no one had ever told her about that when she was young. It was her grandfather, William, and

was just after 11 AM when Courtney and the children arrived at the Duncans’ ancestral

the car, she was amused

of twenty servants standing in two rows. Ten men and