One Night Surprise Novel

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?”

Elijah wasn’t, and he

that I like him. I have ever since I was young, and I can tell the difference between familial and romantic

you crazy?” Courtney found it hard to accept the truth. “Are you

America because something like this happened and I found it hard to face him. I left because I didn’t want 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

if Angie was simply being childish and impulsive. After a long while, Courtney finally struggled into a

she could have taken Angie abroad was if she adopted

time? It wasn’t only that Angie and Elijah were 20 years apart but that they were separated by social status, life experience,

if Angie and Elijah shared no blood relation, they would find it difficult

the thought of the various ways this could end, Courtney felt a

painted in a layer of apparent prosperity

was located, the elevator dinged and

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

about it along the way, Caleb failed to figure out what urgent business the enterprise had that

desk, Alexander was

me for something, President

at Caleb, Alexander asked, “How’s the lawsuit with Amberport Pharmaceuticals

for a moment before explaining, “You might have forgotten about it, President Duncan, but Amberport Pharmaceuticals was acquired by Olsapine 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

an indent appeared on his brow. “You say that like it’s no big deal,” he snapped. “Am I supposed

pause, Caleb replied easily, “I’m afraid I’m not sure, as this is handled by the

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

furious that the latter felt like he was being consumed