Chapter 161 She Is Probably His Ex-Girlfriend
After Alexander returned from the restroom, he did not see Courtney in the lounge area. Moreover, the front desk had just changed shifts. When he asked them about her whereabouts, nobody had seen her.
“Maybe she went back on her own since it’s so late.” Vivian naturally hugged Alexander’s arm, practically pressing her entire body against his arm. Her eyes were still slightly red as she said in a stifled voice, “Alex, I’m tired. Can you send me back?”
The front desk was just behind them. Several receptionists watched the scene before them and revealed stunned expressions. What is with this intimate posture? What’s going on? Isn’t President Duncan in a relationship with Miss Hunter? Why is he so close with the president of SG Eastern Branch?
Alexander absentmindedly glanced at the entrance of the hotel. He had a vague feeling that something was wrong. Even if it was something urgent, Courtney isn’t the type of person to leave without telling me anything. However, Vivian seemed to be very drunk. She leaned against his shoulder and closed her eyes without moving. Frowning, he had no choice but to call his driver to send her back home for now.
In the living room of a three-story villa at Westpark, Vivian grabbed Alexander by the arm and stopped him. She raised her head to look at him with a drunk expression, her words slurring as she said, “Alex, about what I mentioned before… you don’t need to rush to answer me. I can wait.”
Alexander was about to leave, but he paused and lowered his head to look at the person on the sofa. Without hesitating, he pushed her arm away. “You’re drunk, Mikayla.”
“I’m not drunk.” She was reluctant to let go, wrapping both arms around his waist. Her voice sounded like she was about to cry. “Alex, I’m scared… Won’t you stay with me?”
Despite allowing her to hug him, his gaze became cold and distant. “I called your brother. He will come and accompany you.”
Upon hearing those words, the arms hugging him instantly stiffened. Then, she retracted her arms after a moment. Sitting on the sofa with her head hanging low, although her curled bangs blocked out most of her expression, her disappointment was as clear as day. He frowned slightly at the sight.
A long while later, Vivian suddenly looked up and complained resentfully, “Alex, you’re terrible! I was only joking with you! Even if you don’t want to accompany me, you don’t need to tell my brother! If my brother comes, he will know that I was drinking. He’s going to scold me again!”
The frown on Alexander’s face relaxed at those words. After leaving Vivian’s house, he decided to drop by Courtney’s apartment. However, there were no signs that anybody had returned tonight. In the meantime, Courtney’s phone remained turned off, and the butler at the Duncans’ ancestral home said that she had not gone there either.
“Where to now, President Duncan?” Josh held the steering wheel as the car left the residential area Courtney lived at.
“Head toward Cameron’s house.” A low voice came from the back seat. From the rearview mirror, he could see that Alexander was scowling deeply. Mikayla’s return had been a surprise to Alexander, and it had disrupted many of his plans.
Half an hour later.
“Courtney? Why did you come to my house in the middle of the night looking for Courtney? Are you nuts?” Cameron yawned as she sat on the sofa. “Did you quarrel with Courtney?”
“Is she really not here?” Alexander stood in the living room. Studying the messy apartment, his suspicious gaze finally landed on the door to the main bedroom.
“She’s really not here. What time do you think it is? Can you let me sleep already? I still have to get up early tomorrow for work, unlike a certain young master. Hey—what are you doing?!” She jumped up from the sofa. Before she could stop him, he strode over to the bedroom door and pushed it open.
The yellow light spilled out from the bedroom. A familiar figure was sitting on the bed, looking very shocked. He abruptly wrapped the blankets around his body, trying to cover himself up. “What the f*ck, Alex?! Knock before you barge into somebody else’s bedroom—”
Alexander stared at Gale’s shocked expression with a startled expression. “Did Courtney not come here?”
Gale covered his chest, looking like he didn’t know whether to cry or to laugh. “What do you think?”
Not long later, the sound of a door closing came from outside as well as Cameron’s spiteful ‘I won’t see you out.’ Those two sounds reverberated within the house. Then, Cameron crossed her arms and looked at Gale. “Your acting was a little exaggerated. By the way, you can leave now.”
“What?! You’re throwing me aside after you’re done using me?!”
“Shut up. Don’t you see I have something going on today?” While saying that, she turned to the balcony and shouted, “Courtney, he’s gone. You can come in now.”
Gale muttered under his breath as he threw aside the blankets, picked up his shirt from the floor, and put it on. At the same time, the sound of a door opening came from the balcony. Courtney walked in with her head hanging low and said in a hoarse voice, “Thanks.”
She originally planned to go home. However, when she recalled that Alexander had been living at her place recently, she decided to head directly to Cameron’s place. She did not expect to see Gale standing outside Cameron’s house. The two had yet to reconcile, so he had been locked outside.
“Why are you thanking me?” Cameron frowned. Pulling Courtney over to the bed, they sat down. “Sit down and talk. What happened? You look like you’ve lost your soul.”
“It’s obvious. She had a fight with Alex.” Gale’s voice came from behind them. Cameron immediately rolled her eyes at him and said, “Will you die if you don’t talk? If you’re going to continue being nonsensical, then get out of here.”
Upon hearing those words, Gale immediately shut his mouth and kept silent.
“Don’t listen to the nonsense he spews.” She held Courtney’s hands. “What on earth happened? You need to tell me clearly for me to help you.”
Courtney lowered her head and said in a gloomy voice, “I saw Alexander hugging Vivian.”
“Vivian Shepherd?!” Cameron’s expression changed drastically, and she nearly jumped out of bed. “Didn’t you mention her before? The female president of SG Eastern Branch, right?”
Courtney nodded. Her head was a mess, and she didn’t know what she was saying. Her mind was filled with the image of those two people hugging each other.
“Motherf*cker! What a sc*mbag!” Cameron clenched her fists so hard that her knuckles made a sound. “It hasn’t been long since the incident involving Britney Price subsided. And now, Vivian Shepherd?! Didn’t he say he doesn’t fool around with women? What lies! Besides, what’s with these women throwing themselves at him, one after another?! Don’t they know he has a girlfriend?! How can they be so shameless?!”
“I think she is his ex-girlfriend.” Courtney looked depressed as she interrupted Cameron’s rant. If I hadn’t listened to Vivian talking about her past with Alexander, I wouldn’t have gotten so shocked. I just ran away without making any preparations at all.
She had always thought of Alexander as a decisive and strong-willed person. Moreover, she believed he held the same attitude toward women. She didn’t even see him being nice to Britney, who stayed beside him for several years as his fake fiancée. However, she saw him looking at Vivian with a completely doting look from where she stood at the restroom door. There was that necklace too. If I didn’t hear wrongly, the necklace I took from him back then was originally a token of their love.
Cameron was stunned for quite a long while before she came back to her senses. “He has an ex-girlfriend?”
Courtney said nothing.
“Gale, didn’t you tell me that Alexander had never been in a relationship before?”
Gale looked a little bleak and depressed. “Didn’t you say I shouldn’t talk? Can I remain silent on this topic too?”
“What do you think?” Cameron clenched her fist and threatened him, “It looks like you know exactly what is going on between Vivian and Alexander.”
“How can I not know? The three of us grew up together…”
