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.

could not hold

of Citron Apparel, Courtney zoned out as she looked at the maple leaves outside the window. The voices that rang beside her simply blew

discuss with the 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

PR manager, Lionel Greenwood seemed to be waiting for a long time for an opportunity for 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 to discover the malicious

do you think, Miss

in the conference room, Courtney finally returned to her

She looked slightly

at her house, so she had not been listening

seated to her left, reminded her about their discussion when he saw her

the bid of Sakura Group. However, I think that if we use social media platforms to censor related topics, it might

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

what he meant and focused on the issue right

our own. It’s impossible to block the

next five minutes. Since Lionel Greenwood was quite young, he was quite quick

Hunter, how about this—let social media block some vague rumors that seemed likely and leave the

everyone was confused at first. However, they quickly understood what he

achieve the opposite

be true, even though the explanation seemed ridiculous and did not bring upon a huge impact. It would be better if they would just release a huge ‘bomb’ online to catch people’s attention for them

approved unanimously by

to her office. Her newly hired assistant, Natasha, followed behind her to send some documents that required her signature to her

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

had the 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 a

“Who sent it?”

“President Lewis’ assistant.”

Courtney froze. Casey is pretty free, huh? He even asked his assistant

the invitation, she saw a few brief