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.

were in the office could not hold it in anymore. Once the rumor spread, everyone followed the trend and bashed Courtney alone. Fortunately, Citron Apparel had

Apparel, Courtney zoned out as she looked at the maple leaves outside

relevant social media platform to immediately block the content. Otherwise, at this critical time,

had been formed not long ago, the 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

you think, Miss

the conference room, Courtney finally returned to

looked slightly

she had been brooding on the incident that just happened at her house, so she had not

her left, reminded her about their discussion

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

reminding all of them about the incident. But all in all,

he meant and focused

procedures of our own. It’s impossible to block

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

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

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

plans were to achieve the opposite effect by over-exaggerating the

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

was approved unanimously by

the meeting ended, Courtney 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 an invitation card

invitation from AW Group

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

“Who sent it?”

“President Lewis’ assistant.”

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

she opened the invitation, she saw a few brief words written elegantly with a