One Night Surprise

Chapter 456 Are You All Crazy?

At this moment, Angie took another violent sip of alcohol before continuing in a low voice, “To be precise, I kissed him.”

Shocked, Courtney stared at the young woman. Her alcohol-drinking motions were already practiced and even somewhat mature in the way that only someone aged between the innocence of girlhood and the sexiness of adulthood could be. It had to be irresistible to men.

“What else did you do with him?” Courtney pressed, forcing herself to keep calm despite the nature of the question.

Angie’s expression twisted up into agony, and it was a long moment before she finally shook her head. “I don’t know. I was drunk.”

That evening was Elijah’s birthday party. Summer break hadn’t even started yet, but Angie had skipped class to give him a present, only to have Lilian pull her into her bedroom and force her to dress up before she could go and greet the guests. They argued for so long that the guests had arrived by the time she left the bedroom and with Elijah caught up in entertaining the guests, Angie was forced to stand in a corner and occupy herself.

And then, Lilian’s friend came over to her to make a toast, saying that she was already old enough to drink.

Young and brash, Angie was incited into getting drunk.

After that, she could only remember the evening in bits and pieces. What she recalled was that Elijah found her drunk and took her upstairs to rest…

“Lilian only showed me the video of Elijah and I kissing. I don’t know what happened after that. She said… she said I wasn’t fit to live at home anymore and that she would take the video to court and accuse Elijah of molesting his adopted daughter if I didn’t leave.” Angie’s voice was tense, revealing her stubborn nature.

“What?” Courtney couldn’t believe her ears. “You were drunk! This was a misunderstanding. Why would she want to take the video to court? Is she mad?!”

“What if something else happened?”

impossible!” Courtney denied vehemently. “You were drunk but Elijah wasn’t, and he would never do something so improper to his own

his daughter.” Angie stared up at Courtney in trepidation. “I know you can tell that I like him. I have ever since I was young, and I can

it hard to accept

him to end up with a lawsuit because of me. But if he and Lilian divorced—if the adoptive relationship between us was dissolved and I could absolve him of such a moral quandary—I would go for him without hesitation.” Angie was sure and fearlessly stubborn in the way that only very young

to calm down at the moment. She even wondered if Angie was simply

she took the then 12-year-old Angie off the desert island five years ago was on behalf of Fatso. Due to issues with nationality, the only way she could have taken Angie abroad was if she adopted the girl. Then, because Courtney had to go to France for her studies, she had to entrust Angie

Courtney have imagined such an outcome at the time? It wasn’t only that Angie and Elijah were 20 years apart but that they were separated by social status, life experience, a marriage, and moral principles that the world could

blood relation, they would find it

the various ways this could end,

was painted in a layer of

was located, the elevator dinged and Caleb rushed out and strode all the

telling him that he was urgently needed and that he had to set aside all his business at hand to return

Caleb failed to figure out what urgent business the enterprise had that would

was looking

me for something,

asked, “How’s the lawsuit with

Pharmaceuticals three months ago, so the lawsuit was transferred to Olsapine Pharmaceuticals’ name. During the transfer, you played a round of golf with Olsapine Pharmaceuticals’ president and informed us that the lawsuit would be settled out of court with one of their warehouses in the city outskirts. So, we

brow. “You say that like it’s no big deal,” he snapped. “Am I supposed to sign a contract

pause, Caleb replied easily, “I’m afraid I’m not sure,

you know that I’m not signing the contract. I don’t need the warehouse in the city

furious that the latter