One Night Surprise

Chapter 262 Malicious Rumors

Once Alexander’s question reached her ears, Courtney clenched her fists tightly. As her fingernails sank into her palms, she tried to calm herself down. However, she knew that once she opened her mouth, her trembling voice would betray her.

“I’m relieved.”

Alexander suddenly chuckled.

“Seems like you have always been very vigilant toward outsiders.”

Courtney froze and looked at him without thinking. After seeing the teasing look on his face, she finally heaved a sigh of relief.

She avoided his gaze and spoke in a low voice. “Yeah. Back then, I still didn’t know you well; of course I couldn’t tell you everything.”

“It might rain today. Remember to bring an umbrella along.”

With that, Alexander took an umbrella from the umbrella stand and passed it to her.

“Thank you.”

Courtney lowered her head and pursed her lips. She still felt the lingering fear left behind from their encounter just now.

After walking out of her house, her heart continued to thump non-stop. She had a feeling that if she did not come clean with Alexander, based on his intelligence, he would quickly find out the truth. What might happen by then, she simply could not predict.

The reason Bill suddenly rang Courtney up was because of Sakura Group’s bid.

During the past two days, there was a sudden surge of rumors online about Courtney being the sole legal inheritor of the Hunter Group. They also said that she received a huge amount of inheritance from Lucian and a huge part of it came from the loopholes of the Hunter Group’s finances. Hence, it was equivalent to Lucian using a legal yet unethical method to transfer the inheritance to her.

The Hunter Group was an immense corporation that had thousands of employees. When it suddenly stopped all its operations, many people had to sit around and wait. Because of the auditing process, not a single cent of the wages was paid even after two months.

creating a scene at the building site—even the white collar workers who were in the office could not hold it in anymore. Once the rumor spread, everyone followed the trend and bashed Courtney

out as she looked at the maple leaves outside the window.

relevant social media platform to immediately block the content. Otherwise, at this critical time, it might easily affect Sakura Group’s vote for us. We have to take

him to shine. Fortunately for him, it had now arrived. He looked quite excited and pumped up at this moment, and he was the first person

you think,

rang in the conference room, Courtney

looked slightly

brooding on the incident that just happened at

left, reminded her about their discussion

was to quickly suppress the rumors before the netizens could look it up, so that it won’t affect the bid of Sakura Group. However, I think that

in time, effectively reminding all of them about the incident. But all in all, it merely seemed

understood what he meant and focused on the

our own. It’s impossible to block the current tsunami, so we

that, they brainstormed for the next five minutes. Since Lionel Greenwood was quite young,

media block some vague rumors that seemed likely and leave the most outrageous and ridiculous

said that, everyone was confused at first.

achieve the opposite effect by

ridiculous and did not bring upon a huge impact. It would be better if they would just release a huge ‘bomb’

plan was approved unanimously by everyone in the

went back to her office. Her newly hired assistant, Natasha, followed behind her to send some documents that required her signature to her office. Then, she also put

morning—it’s an invitation from AW Group for the beer-tasting session at

characters ‘AW’ printed on it in cursive. If Natasha did not clarify that this was an invitation for a beer-tasting session, Courtney might have mistaken it for

“Who sent it?”

“President Lewis’ assistant.”

his assistant to personally send the invitation card

opened the invitation, she saw a few brief