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.

childhood might not have been an accident. It was highly likely that this kind of ‘accident’ would continue to occur more

advance and don’t trust anyone.” Alicia’s voice

front of the kitchen counter, her posture was upright even though she was in her fifties. Her aura was extraordinary, and the words she

a while, Courtney left

with the kids, then. I’ll bring them back to

Alicia came over and handed her a key. “Don’t forget your

“I can’t accept this.”

small part of your mother’s inheritance that has been left with me so that you would have a place to live when you came back.

Although she did not use any four-letter words, Courtney

embrace. However, Tina was wide awake. Curiously, she asked,

tell

was saying, but she was quite

not to listen to only one side of the story. This is an adult problem; kids shouldn’t

“What is ‘burden’?”

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 some books. These books are things you don’t like, but you have to carry them anyway. Let’s say that you’re too tired one day, and you have to give up part of the things

some serious thought. After thinking for a while, she looked back at Courtney and questioned, “Why do I have

answer. In the end,

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

after 11 AM when Courtney and the children arrived at the

got out of the car, she was

of twenty servants standing in two rows. Ten men and ten women lined