One Night Surprise

Chapter 285 I Do Not Hate You

Courtney turned to leave after speaking her mind.

Where are you going?”

“That’s none of your business,” she sounded livid. With that, she held onto her skirt to walk down the stairs—she was preparing to leave the cocktail party and the hotel straight away.

Just as she was about to enter the elevator, Alexander caught up with her. However, she was quick to close the elevator doors and he was left standing outside. He had no choice, but to stare helplessly as the elevator descended swiftly. Soon, it stopped on the first floor.

By the time he descended to the hotel entrance via another elevator to chase after her, she had already entered the car. Through the car window, he could vaguely make out a man’s side profile before he clenched his fists tightly in anger and he took out his phone to call her.

The car drove away from the downtown area, which was crowded with people, when Courtney’s phone would not stop ringing in the car.

“Aren’t you going to answer that?” the man sitting beside her asked.

She immediately declined the call while turning sideways to look at Isaac. “No worries. Just drop me at the intersection in front. I’ll grab a cab to head home.”

“I’ll send you home.” He looked uneasy. “It’s late and it is not safe out here.”

“No need.” Courtney flatly refused. “You know why I entered your car earlier. We do not have to be polite with each other.”

“I am not being polite.”

She shot him a look and he could see the invisible barrier between them.

words disappeared from the tip of his tongue when he saw her gaze. “Courtney, I need to

past, I don’t want to talk about

up with Vanessa. However, in the years that you have left me, I realized that you are the

you trying to

that this sounds out of the blue, but if it’s

has been beating around the bush for so long and I was wondering what he was planning to say. In the end, he’s humbly asking me not to hate him. Courtney regarded Isaac and she realized that time and life had caused the once warm and confident boy from school to fade away. In fact, she could not sense the high spirits that he used to have. I suddenly can’t even

splitting up only involves two people. It is impossible to blame only one person. In the later few years when I was

as though he was in

be someone else out there.” After Courtney’s speech, the car fell into complete silence. No matter what happened throughout the years, we once gave each

but his chauffeur seemed to be well informed

“We are here.”

the door. “Thank you,” she

His gaze was focused at a

Isaac’s gaze—it was Alexander’s figure standing as straight as a pole at the entrance of the residential area. “There’s no need,” she rejected

The car engine roared to life before it disappeared in the continuous traffic moving through the entrance of the residential area, resembling the relationship she and him shared throughout the years. In the

removed his coat to wrap it around her shoulders. “It is cold outside.

as usual. In any case, his calm demeanor is unexpected.

lights reflected on the greenery along the road as the two of them walked along

stroll.” Courtney was trying to take the initiative to make

you say to Isaac? Even if you are lashing out at me, you must not get

to him. She hissed in anger, “Then, you better explain about the situation with Kelly before commenting about me!” With that, she aggressively lifted her gown as she made her way to enter the building. How can he be

with such force that Oliver thought that it was