One Night Surprise

Chapter 243 I Never Broke Up With You

Her words rang in his ears; it felt as though a thousand little needles were poking his eardrums. “What did you just say?” he demanded as he grew flustered.

She turned to look at him with a raised brow while feeling emboldened. “A marriage of convenience is still a marriage nonetheless. I am legally acknowledged as his wife.”

“You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you?” Alexander asked through gritted teeth. She’s saying this to deliberately provoke me.

“Doing what on purpose?” Courtney looked at him with curiosity while feigning confusion about what he meant by those words. “I’m telling the truth. Is there anything wrong with what I said?”

He frowned. “Then, what about us?”

“Us?” She crossed her arms as she appraised him from head to toe. Then, she shrugged casually. “Isn’t it obvious? We’ve broken up and now, we’re nothing more than former lovers.”

Alexander’s icy demeanor had shifted after returning from Shanghai; he had requested for flowers and food to be continuously delivered to the Citron studio for the past couple of days.

However, Courtney knew better than to fall for his sugar-coated tactics. After all, he was in the wrong—he had yet to apologize to her and it did not look like he would do so anytime soon. Even if he did, she was not sure whether it would be enough for her to reconcile with him.

In the absence of an apology on his part, they would remain as nothing more than former lovers.

Alexander, on the other hand, seemed to disagree as he argued, “You appear to have forgotten that I never broke up with you in the first place.”

“Is that so? I seem to recall hearing that you told the cops that night that we were not a couple.”

On the night they broke up, she had called the cops out of anger and he denied that he had any relationship with her when he was hauled into the police station. If it was not for his background, he would have been charged for attempted rape and be taken into custody.

While that was in the past, Courtney could not help but hold a grudge against him. “Be a man and own up to your words. You can’t just take something back like that, you know,” she sneered.

Alexander simply gaped. He clenched his fists and grumbled, “I’m going to kill Josh.”

“You can’t blame Josh for everything. He wasn’t the one who told me about this,” she clarified. Then, she gave him a withering look as she mocked. “It’s no wonder that you’ve been usurped—you don’t even know who told me about what you

Alexander’s expression soured. Is she going to hold

to say in response, Courtney stopped mocking him and instead briskly said, “There’s something that I need to attend

you off,”

as she explained. “I drove here. Besides, it wouldn’t be convenient for

needed to calm down before they could decide if they were truly compatible with each other. Between the both of them, it seemed as if she had

had were either triggered by the topic of the kids or the secret of her past and it was

rooted in the same spot and his

fights. If she hasn’t done that, it means she’s waiting for the right

it feels

at the police station. He certainly did not expect Courtney to use his

it upon himself and he knew he deserved it, even if it killed him to admit

and his team of designers

tender, Citron Apparel held another meeting

project. “All the tenders submitted will be internally reviewed by Sakura Group. The votes from the executives will account for thirty percent of the

makers would still be the

during the tender, yes,” he answered with a

employees in Sakura Group would account for seventy percent of the decision making, there was no guarantee that there would not be any schemes or attempts to rig the votes

all, the employees would probably think of the design of their uniform as the most important aspect of their work, but for fashion enterprises who

that someone would try to bribe the

during this crucial time. The moment anyone starts rigging the votes, we

the whole room burst into an uproar as everyone began to discuss in earnest. “Why do we need to keep

be able to pull off

hire

a frenzy, Courtney’s phone rang. She glanced briefly at the caller ID and rose from her seat, saying, “I have to