Chapter 218 I Stand With People, Not With Reason
“Are you okay, sis?”
As soon as Shay got the call, he rushed over without even changing out of his attire. Dressed in a blue-sequin tuxedo, he showed up looking weary and with Casey following behind him.
The police already left her place. With an exhausted look on her face, she opened the door and let them in. “I’m okay.”
While the two cups of hot tea on the coffee table were still bubbling, she briefly told them what had happened without going into detail. She simply said that her breakup with Alexander did not go smoothly and needed police intervention when he tried to harm her.
“I’ll move in here.” Shay pulled his brows in tightly. “I don’t trust him. If he dares to step foot in here again, I will break his legs.”
“You don’t have to.” Beside him, Casey spoke in a deep voice. “Alexander is not the type to stalk. Since he’s already left, he won’t come back again. If he really wants to get back at someone, he won’t do it himself.”
“Didn’t he do this himself? Look at my sister’s neck.”
There was obvious bruising on her neck that Alexander had inflicted during the struggle. It could have been an accident or a moment when he lost control of his temper, but that was the most obvious bruise and evidence of his crime.
If Casey did not hold Shay back, Shay would have run to the police station to beat Alexander up.
“There is no need for that. I called you over because I had some other things to talk to you about.”
“What is it?”
Courtney glanced at Casey.
Ever since he came into her place, he did not see himself as an outsider. Even now, he was sitting leisurely on the couch without taking a hint.
“I know how to keep secrets. I’m also Alexander’s business rival. I don’t think there’s a need for you to keep me in the dark. I might even be able to help you.”
When it came to having thick skin, no one could beat Casey at it.
Shay rolled his eyes at him. “It’s between me and my sister, and not related to you. You can leave first. I’ll be staying here tonight.”
“No,” Casey refused right away. It was clear that he had no intention of leaving anymore.
A frown appeared on Courtney’s forehead. She was not in the mood to get in the middle of their quarrel.
“It’s okay. I don’t plan on concealing this secret any longer. Taking this chance, I will draw the line with him once and for all, and request for custody over Jordan again.”
As for how the police were going to deal with Alexander this time, she did not have any demands. She only called the police so he would leave her place. After the police stopped by, the first thing she did was change the passcode at her front door.
It was not the first time. Whether there was a misunderstanding or not, she could not approve of his violent behavior. It did not matter how angry or confused he was; it did not justify forcing her against her wishes.
This time, she would not forgive him again.
“Yes, you should draw the line with him. But, custody… What custody?” Dumbfounded, Shay assumed that Courtney was not thinking straight because of her anger. He started carefully, “Sis, even if you love Alexander’s son, you can’t get custody over someone else’s child.”
“Jordan is my son.”
With a grim look on her face, she had her fist clenched so tightly that her nails were almost tearing into her skin.
From her expression, it did not look like she was joking.
Besides Shay, even Casey who was usually calm and composed was shocked by the news.
No one would have imagined that the mother to Alexander’s little prince, that no one in the city could identify, was Courtney.
Shay walked out of Courtney’s place with a serious expression.
Getting in the car, he looked at Casey in the driver seat and urged, “You can’t tell anyone about my sister.”
Casey rested his slender fingers on the steering wheel. Between his fingers, a logo of a galloping horse in a shield reflected on his serious and steady face. “I don’t have that much time to waste. Didn’t she say so herself? This will not be a secret for much longer.”
At the mention of that, Shay grew even more serious. “Alexander’s son is so important to him. He won’t give him up to my sister that easily. When the time comes, he will make use of all his connections. I’m worried my sister will lose Tina in the end, too.”
“I find it more interesting how Alexander didn’t even know who the woman beside him was before he slept with her six years ago.”
“Shut up.” Shay rolled his eyes. “I thought you were going to help. Now that you know about it, what do you plan to do?”
“I can help.” Casey glanced at him. “But you still have to give me a reason. Oh, that’s right. I stand with people, not with reason.”
Shay furrowed his brows together and fell silent. When he understood what Casey meant, mixed reactions spread across his face.
“Do you want to die, Casey?”
Ever since he got tangled up with Casey, Casey had become impossible to shake off and wanted to intervene in everything. Indeed, he did help Shay straighten out a number of matters, but the price of that was constantly being taken advantage of with words. He said anything he wanted without even thinking through it first.
“I’m not in the mood for jokes. Just take me home for now.”
“Sit tight.”
When Casey stepped on the gas pedal, the engine roared to life, attracting the attention of pedestrians on the streets. The streamlined car looked like a rocket as it quickly made it onto the high-speed beltway.
The night was restless with all the secrets that it knew. Currently, the whole city was stuck amid the misty rain. Thunderstorms continued to sweep the streets as if they wanted to erase the traces of the past and start over.
At daybreak, sunlight seeped through.
Outside the police station, a car screeched to an abrupt stop. A young man in a suit and leather shoes got out of a white sedan swiftly and ran off with a sense of urgency. When he stepped inside the station, he grabbed ahold of a female officer and demanded, “Where’s Alexander?”
The female officer shot him a glance before sticking her mouth out in the direction of the detention room. She snapped, “There. He’s been waiting all night for his family to pick him up. Why are you only here now?”
“My apologies. My phone ran out of battery and was switched off last night.”
Josh was sweating buckets. He had always been cautious and conscientious in his work. Last night, it just so happened that his phone ran out of battery and had been switched off. When he woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, he looked at his phone out of habit and realized that he had gotten a call from the police station when his phone was turned off. He broke out into a cold sweat right away.
His boss had spent almost the whole night at the police station and called him several times but he did not pick up. Wasn’t he just asking to be fired? He still had to make money to buy a house in Melrose City and get a wife!
After the police asked Josh a few simple questions about his relationship with Alexander, they let him in to talk to Alexander.
“What do you mean? Are you saying I still can’t take him back yet?”
“Of course not. Do you think he will be let off that easily after a rape allegation?” The female officer was quite irritated. “This isn’t so simple. We’ve submitted a report to the higher-ups with all the evidence against the accused. He needs to be held in custody for now. We will have to wait until tomorrow morning to see whether the victim is ready to present evidence for a lawsuit.”
“How is that possible? Miss Hunter is President Duncan’s girlfriend. They’re going to get married soon. It was just a lovers’ quarrel. It’s not what you think…”
“Really?” The female officer closed the record book in her hands and looked at him. “But the accused himself has denied being in a relationship with the victim.”
