One Night Surprise

Chapter 217 Someone Tried to Rape Me

“A man and a woman alone together at this late hour. Do you think you can give a clear explanation for what you two did?”

Alexander had an apathetic gaze. His overbearing demeanor seemed to lower the temperature in the house and make it feel like an icehouse.

Courtney frowned as she stood firmly on the ground with the support of the table. “Calm down. Elijah and I really are just friends. I don’t know what misunderstanding you have. He just returned from America and helped me resolve a dispute at my father’s funeral. When he gave me a ride home, I invited him up for a cup of hot tea and a chat. What’s wrong with that? If you don’t believe me, then it would be useless for me to give any explanation, wouldn’t it?”

She did not think that he was such a petty person. For him to be this angry after simply seeing Elijah seemed like a deliberate provocation.

“Just friends. Can you look at me and say that one more time?”

“We’re really just friends.”

Clenching his fists with an already sour expression on his face, he pulled out the information on his phone and slammed it down on the table. The collision of the back cover of the phone against the marble countertop produced a loud crash that echoed clearly inside the house.

As Courtney looked at the content in the photo, her expression slowly changed.

“Did you do a background check on me?”

All her information in America, including her marriage history, was being presented before her. There was even a family picture with Elijah in it.

“If I hadn’t checked, I wouldn’t have known that you had such a deep love you were still holding onto till this day.” He had lost his sense of rationality as he ridiculed, “To you, being friends with a man means you can sleep around with him and even have children with him. You are so loyal to your friends.”

“Alexander Duncan, what are you saying?” Her face grew pale. She did not dare to believe the foul words she had just heard.

“Can’t you understand what I’m saying? Wasn’t that man the ex-husband you always talked about? No wonder you never told me anything. I thought you were hurt because of your failed marriage, but it turns out I was the one who got fooled by you two!”

reverberated inside the

me out? Even

“Just what?”

America,” she pressed. Despite being angry, she tried to

let out a scornful laugh and had a look of disdain in his eyes. “You went to that extent for

believe me?” Seeing the expression on his face, her limbs started

trying to control his rage. “Didn’t you write a draft before you lied to my face? Don’t you think there are too many loopholes here?

entered her bones and slowly seeped into every part of

shut her eyes. The anger she had tried hard to suppress was

How dare you ask

The frustrations that

on his face, but his reaction was much quicker. He grasped her wrist with one hand, gripping her so hard

this fact was exposed?” He scoffed. “Here I thought you were quite capable, but it

harder she struggled to free her hand,

anything for your own benefits—even give birth to a child?” He pulled her in. “I’ll help you increase Citron Apparel’s market

out of

she used her other hand to hit his chest

all seemed

resistance. Gripping her wrist unsympathetically, he dragged her out of the

me go, Alexander. You

out all the curse words she could think

she did, however, was make him even more infuriated. Sitting on her waist to pin her down on the couch, he used one hand to pull her hands up above her head and put some strength in the other to rip off her blouse. Her buttons popped

she kicked over a standing lamp next to the couch, causing the lamp to shatter. The incandescent light above her head made a few short flickering sounds before the whole living

felt a sudden pain coming

fell on the couch. “Courtney,