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.

workers who were in the office could not hold it in anymore. Once the rumor spread, everyone followed the trend and bashed Courtney alone.

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

rumors online, we need to discuss with the relevant social media platform to immediately block the content. Otherwise, at this critical time, it might

time for an opportunity for him to shine. Fortunately for him, it had now arrived. He looked quite excited and pumped up at

do you think,

voice rang in the conference room, Courtney finally

looked slightly

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

was seated to her left, reminded her about their

bid of Sakura Group. However, I think

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

he meant and focused

can’t just solve this problem using social media alone; we need standard operating procedures of our own. It’s impossible to block the current

Lionel Greenwood was

social media block some vague rumors that seemed likely and leave

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

to achieve the opposite effect by over-exaggerating the current

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 to discuss. When the malicious rumors went too far,

plan was approved unanimously by

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

received it this morning—it’s an invitation from AW Group

the characters ‘AW’ printed on it in cursive. If Natasha did not clarify

“Who sent it?”

“President Lewis’ assistant.”

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

the invitation, she saw a few