Chapter 243 I Never Broke Up With You
Her words rang in his ears; it felt as though a thousand little needles were poking his eardrums. “What did you just say?” he demanded as he grew flustered.
She turned to look at him with a raised brow while feeling emboldened. “A marriage of convenience is still a marriage nonetheless. I am legally acknowledged as his wife.”
“You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you?” Alexander asked through gritted teeth. She’s saying this to deliberately provoke me.
“Doing what on purpose?” Courtney looked at him with curiosity while feigning confusion about what he meant by those words. “I’m telling the truth. Is there anything wrong with what I said?”
He frowned. “Then, what about us?”
“Us?” She crossed her arms as she appraised him from head to toe. Then, she shrugged casually. “Isn’t it obvious? We’ve broken up and now, we’re nothing more than former lovers.”
Alexander’s icy demeanor had shifted after returning from Shanghai; he had requested for flowers and food to be continuously delivered to the Citron studio for the past couple of days.
However, Courtney knew better than to fall for his sugar-coated tactics. After all, he was in the wrong—he had yet to apologize to her and it did not look like he would do so anytime soon. Even if he did, she was not sure whether it would be enough for her to reconcile with him.
In the absence of an apology on his part, they would remain as nothing more than former lovers.
Alexander, on the other hand, seemed to disagree as he argued, “You appear to have forgotten that I never broke up with you in the first place.”
“Is that so? I seem to recall hearing that you told the cops that night that we were not a couple.”
On the night they broke up, she had called the cops out of anger and he denied that he had any relationship with her when he was hauled into the police station. If it was not for his background, he would have been charged for attempted rape and be taken into custody.
While that was in the past, Courtney could not help but hold a grudge against him. “Be a man and own up to your words. You can’t just take something back like that, you know,” she sneered.
Alexander simply gaped. He clenched his fists and grumbled, “I’m going to kill Josh.”
a withering look as she mocked. “It’s no wonder that you’ve been usurped—you don’t even know who
Is she going to hold that against me for the rest of her
nothing to say in response, Courtney stopped mocking him and instead briskly said, “There’s something that I need to
can drop you off,” he offered in
explained. “I drove
with each other. Between the both
the secret of her past and it was the latter that she needed
his brows were drawn together as he
hold grudges and they will bring up your past mistakes during your fights. If she hasn’t done that, it means she’s waiting for the right moment to use them against you. You’ll be rendered speechless by the end
that’s what it feels like,
things out of anger when he was at the police station. He certainly did not expect Courtney to use
knew he deserved
and his team of
their tender, Citron Apparel held another meeting about the
internally reviewed by Sakura Group. The votes from the executives will account for thirty percent of the final decision whereas
decision makers would still be
he answered
percent of the decision making, there was no guarantee that there would not be any schemes or attempts to rig the
the most important aspect of their work, but for fashion enterprises who
possibility that someone would try to
within Sakura Group during this crucial time. The moment anyone starts rigging the votes, we need to be ready to
speaking, the whole room burst into an uproar as everyone began to discuss in earnest. “Why do we need to keep an eye on the votes? Do we really have to
to pull off something
can hire a professional
a frenzy, Courtney’s phone rang. She glanced briefly at the caller ID and rose from her seat, saying, “I have to take
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