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.

at the building site—even the white collar workers who were in the office could not hold it

on the second floor of Citron Apparel, Courtney zoned out as she looked at the maple leaves outside the window.

content. Otherwise, at this critical time, it might easily affect Sakura Group’s vote for us. We have to take immediate action

to be waiting for a long time for an opportunity for him to shine. Fortunately for him, it had now

you think,

in the conference room, Courtney finally

looked

been brooding on the incident that just happened at her house,

her about their

look it up, so that it won’t affect the bid of Sakura Group. However, I think that if we use social media platforms to censor related topics, it might cause a rebound and show that we

all in

and focused on the issue

operating procedures of our

for the next five minutes. Since Lionel Greenwood was quite

that

everyone was confused at first.

opposite effect by over-exaggerating

stories that seemed very likely to 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 to discuss. When the malicious rumors went too

plan was approved unanimously by everyone

back to her office. Her newly hired assistant, Natasha, followed behind her to send

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

on it in cursive. If Natasha did not clarify that this was an invitation for a beer-tasting

“Who sent it?”

“President Lewis’ assistant.”

assistant to personally send the invitation card over. Seems like his life has been

she opened the invitation, she saw a few brief words