One Night Surprise

Chapter 443 Why Are You Being So Cocky?

Kate, who was Alexander’s female assistant, was making coffee at the pantry. Since they had run out of coffee beans, she went into the pantry’s storage to search for it and do some restocking at the same time. While she was in the midst of her search, she heard a conversation outside. She could tell that the voice belonged to another secretary working at the reception outside the president’s office.

“Mr. Reynolds was the one who brought the doctor over and she stayed in President Duncan’s office for almost an hour—I doubt that she needed to stay inside for so long to tend to his injury. Also, President Duncan didn’t ask any one of us to enter even once, but someone saw that there were some snacks and drinks inside, which means that it was President Duncan who prepared it himself.”

The secretary paused for a while to listen to what the other person in the call said.

“Don’t take this too lightly. I have a gut feeling that the female doctor is somewhat different from the others. President Duncan seems to know her and even Mr. Reynolds treats her respectfully.”

The conversation was a short one; it was probably because the person on the other end of the line didn’t have the patience to listen anymore.

After the call ended, the secretary who was in the pantry mumbled, “What’s wrong with her? She’s the one who asked me to inform her if there’s a slightest whiff of trouble, but now that I have done so, she’s disregarding my words. What a crazy woman.”

Kate remained in the pantry’s storage. It was only after the female secretary left that Kate emerged with the things that she wanted. Then, she casually restocked the items and made a cup of coffee before heading toward Alexander’s office.

Meanwhile, at a beauty salon somewhere in Melrose City, Kelly hung up the call before she extended her hands at the manicurist to have her nails painted.

Kelly’s female friend beside her reminded, “How could you not mind that? I heard that. President Duncan from Sunhill Enterprise is the dream man of many girls in Melrose City. Even if you have an advantage over the others by being able to stay close to him, you still have to be careful not to allow him to escape. If that happens, there will be no use crying over spilt milk.”

Kelly snorted nonchalantly, “I have someone keeping an eye on him so that he won’t fall into another woman’s trap. There are some b*tches who will resort to dirty tricks once they learn that pursuing him doesn’t work. Having said that, I have never seen any girls who are able to get close to him in public.”

“S*x is one of humans’ basic needs. You may have not seen it before, but it doesn’t mean that he is indeed a celibate. Otherwise, where do you think his little prince came from?”

“You have a point.” She darted her friend a look. “That woman is an exception—the one and only exception.”

“Which woman? Little prince’s biological mother?”

that woman won’t be returning.

seemed unwilling to mention that person and stopped the topic without even bringing

told him that I’ll be getting him a gift. He’s just a kid who listens to his

and her friend continued to chat for

the afternoon, at the Melrose Hospital, Courtney knocked on the door of Linda’s office

Hass, here’s your

raised her head from behind the

Linda’s desk with a face as impassive as she explained, “Mr. Menzie was supposed to be your date in the first place, so the lunch is for you. I’ll eat if I have the time, but you are aware that I’m busy in the afternoon for these two days. I’ve informed the restaurant to send lunch

that’s a

at a restaurant. In other words, he merely ordered a takeout, which illustrates that he’s not exactly that sincere, no?

“Seriously?” Linda gulped.

late. I shall take my leave

Courtney glanced at the time and fled

for Linda; hence, even if Courtney had the time to do so, she wouldn’t touch the takeout. As Linda had tricked her before this, Courtney didn’t feel the slightest guilt

left the hospital, she went straight to

she fully knew Alexander’s character, she understood that he definitely wouldn’t be swinging by the hospital to tend to his wound after he had made that fact clear to her. If it wasn’t because of his habit of overworking, he wouldn’t have been suffering

Duncan is now

been waiting for Courtney at the entrance and the moment he saw her, he led her

worked at the reception immediately asked, “Mr. Reynolds, who’s that? Why did you bring her to President

cast a glance at that secretary. “Don’t ask questions that you are

stunned her whereupon she cast a profound gaze at the

looked similar to how it had been in the past. The only difference was that there were a couple of brand new items in addition to more books on

randomly selected a book from the shelves to read. The book she chose

see that there were explanations written in