Chapter 334 I Hope You’ll Always Be by My Side
After leaving Oliver’s place, Courtney dropped him off at his school. On one hand, the school wanted him to follow up and write a report about the topic of anti-narcotics after the military exercise. On the other hand, she felt a little awkward if he followed her home after the truth had been revealed.
Thank God there’s the military exercise as the excuse, Courtney thought in relief.
While she was on the way to the kindergarten to pick up the kids after dropping off Oliver, she received a call from Alexander.
“Where are you?”
“On my way to the kindergarten. I’m halfway there now.”
“Don’t bother.” He intentionally softened his tone, sounding very gentle as he said, “Mr. Harry is on his way to pick up the kids. Let’s go out for dinner tonight.”
“We’re having dinner outside? With Grandpa?” Pausing for a moment, Courtney realized that it was New Year’s Eve tonight. “Then, I’ll go back to change first.”
“There’s no one else but us.”
His voice was especially husky and attractive, which made the blood rush to her face before she spoke. “Wait for me. I’m going back to change.”
“You don’t have to change. Just come in comfortable clothes.”
“No, this is a date!”
to spend New Year’s Eve with her. But now that it turned out to be a date, she felt a stronger need to treat it respectfully by dressing up in her prettiest clothes so
on almost all of her clothes from each season. She even video-called Cameron on the other side of the globe
to the bed with the sunlight
Eve, and the streets are still full of festivities. It’s weird if you
red like the
there now, isn’t it? Forget
red and white checkered coat—which was very fitting with the festivity—paired with a beige A-line dress and a pair of knee-high boots. The whole
because it had a ceiling LED display walkway which spanned over three hundred feet. As it was New Year’s Eve tonight, the starry night LED display was changing dramatically, and the surrounding was filled
over the phone. It had just snowed, and the weather report predicted more snowfall for the next couple of days, so it
ceiling LED display,” Alexander answered in the call.
she sniffled as she mumbled, “Why are we meeting outside
walked into the display. Following the path, she stepped down from a platform, surrounded by the sparkling night sky on the LED display the whole
but this display is actually quite nice. Let’s hang out here for
“Sure.”
As she trod along the path, she kept speaking into the phone, and when she
time, and a two-story high Christmas tree entered her view. Bright decorative lights circled around the tree, together with hanging decorations such as gingerbread
like this to appear in a plaza during the Christmas season, but what surprised her was the fact that there wasn’t a single person around this gigantic tree. It was still bustling with life when she walked into the LED display walkway, but the people had
a sudden, she was a little
a dead dial tone. Astonished, she lowered her head to look at her cell
familiar scene appeared on the LED display across her on the second floor
saying, “Mr. Alexander, I’ve turned it on. You can
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