One Night Surprise Chapter 358
Chapter 358 Would You Like to Know Who She Is?
“So, tell me: Why did you appear in the surveince tapes of Louis’ house?” After they returned to the
side hall from the courtyard, Alexander flipped out an old score immediately without giving Oliver any
chance to guard against him.
Just two weeks ago, he had specially gone to the military hospital to look for him because of this issue
as well. If it wasn’t because of that, he wouldn’t have found out the rtionship between himself, Oliver,
and Fiona. Even though the misunderstanding from back then had been resolved, the investigation
regarding Louis was stuck at the surveince tapes.
Courtney paused for a second while drinking her tea and nced at Oliver out of reflex, feeling nervous
for no reason.
“Are you suspecting me of killing Louis?” Oliver asked instead.
Composedly, Alexander said, “The innocent have nothing to fear. If you didn’t do it, just exin why
you were at Oreus instead of returning home. Furthermore, you so happened to appear in Louis’
ce.”
The air felt still for a second. Even though Alexander had just acknowledged him as his younger
brother, it wasn’t enough to earn his respect. Because of Oliver’s identity, he was even more anxious to
know whether he was connected to Louis’ case.
“Okay, I admit that it was Britney who sent me there to find out something,” Oliver said; his voice was
ringing in the living room, breaking the silence and making Courtney’s heart drop at the same time.
Is he going to tell the truth? she wondered. Including the truth about Jordan and what happened back
then?
“Britney Price?” The look on Alexander’s face changed, and a trace of anger appeared. “What did she
ask you to investigate?”
“Jordan’s birth.” Maintaining the calmness in his voice, Oliver kept his face straight as he borated,
“Britney wanted to know who Jordan’s birth mother is and asked me to investigate it. Judging from all
the various signs when Louis left back then, I guessed that it had something to do with you looking for a
surrogate mother, and that led me to Oreus.”
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Gripping the cup tightly, Courtney gradually turned pale. From the corners of his eyes, Alexander
noticed the abnormal look on her face, and he furrowed his brows ever so slightly.
“Back then, something went wrong with the surrogate mother who was in charge, and I found out the
entire truth. I even found out who was the woman who gave birth to your child by mistake. Alex, would
you like to know who she is?” Oliver asked suddenly.
An inexplicable silence fell over the living room, and Alexander turned to steal a look at Courtney. After
seeing her uneasiness, he was quiet for a while and turned Oliver down. “It’s alright. Just tell me how
Louis died.”
Stunned, Courtney gawked at Alexander’s face from the side with an indescribable feeling in her heart.
He probably doesn’t want to hear it because he’s worried about my feelings, she thought.
At the same time, Oliver nced at Courtney, and aplicated look shed across his eyes. The
truth is right in front of our eyes. Whether it started as a mistake and continued on as a mistake or
whatever, this can be considered as a godsent rtionship. However, it will produce a different result if
I say it out now, so I might as well wait for them to announce it themselves officially.
“Britney knew that you were also looking into this matter, and she was afraid that you’d look for
Jordan’s birth mother because of his condition. So, she wanted to seal Louis’ mouth and sent me to
take care of him. I pretended to agree, but not only did she not trust me, she evenid out a trap for me
by sending a few men and nned to burn me and Louis alive in the house.”
Both Alexander and Courtney already knew what happened afterward: Oliver fortunately escaped from
the fire but suffered from temporary memory loss because of the fall. Of all people, he ran into
Courtney, who happened to be there for work, and she brought him back to Melrose by a twist of fate.
“Later, I already recovered my memory when I checked into Sunhill Hotel, but I couldn’t reveal myself. I
had to find out if it was really Britney who tried to frame and kill me, so I kept pretending that I didn’t
recover my memory.” Then, Oliver mentioned everything that happened when he ran into Britney at the
hotel. “In fact, I tested her out with an incident. From that, I can be sure that the idents Jordan kept
encountering time and again were mostly nned by her.”
“The incident of the kitchen fire?” Alexander asked next with a frown.
Oliver nodded. “I was the one who asked her to do it. From the whole process of how she contacted
the hotel staff until the way she threatened Mika to be the scapegoat to take care of that matter, it
seemed that she was very familiar with Sunhill Hotel and was very well-versed in her modus operandi.
Therefore, I deduced that it was definitely not her first timemitting a crime.”
Actually, he regretted asking Britney to do such a thing. Back then, he merely wanted to test her out.
Even if anything happened, he would be there to ensure that the two children wouldn’t be hurt, but he
didn’t think that he would be in another ce helping Courtney to investigate the truth behind Jordan’s
speech loss three years ago when Britney wasmitting the crime. If it wasn’t for Mika, who came
to her senses and saved Jordan, he couldn’t imagine what would be the oue then.
While he was bringing up this matter, he lowered his head and avoided Alexander’s eyes as his own
eyes filled with guilt.
All the dots had been connected into a clear timeline. All these years, there were times when Alexander
suspected Britney, but she was so good at covering her tracks that he couldn’t find out anything. Now
that he knew the connection between Britney and James, and putting in together with the facts that
Oliver found out, everything became clear to him now.
When he thought of everything Jordan went through because of this woman, Alexander scowled and
clenched his fists so tightly that the veins on his arms were visible, showing just how high his mes of
fury were burning.
“Let’s just hand this matter over to the police,” Oliver suggested, reading Alexander’s mind. “It won’t
work well for you if you settle this in private. Quite a few issues have cropped up with Sunhill Enterprise
recently, and the journalists are keeping an eye out for you.”
Given Alexander’s temper, it would be possible that he might send someone to drop Britney off on an
uninhabited ind. However, Oliver had a point. Times were different now, and since the Duncans
already made it public that they had found the missing Fiona Duncan and her son, many eyes were
now fixed on Sunhill Enterprise, waiting for thetest scoop.
So, Britney’s case could only be handed over to the police.
The night was waning, and since Oliver hadn’t fully recovered yet, they returned to their own rooms
after chatting a little longer.
Seated in front of her makeup mirror while applying cream on her hands, Courtney appeared worried
and didn’t even realize it when Alexander was standing behind her.
“What’s on your mind?”
Jumping in shock, she popped her eyes wide and turned to him. A few secondster, she recollected
herself and stammered, “N-Nothing. I was I just thinking about some things from the past.”
“Does it have something to do with what Oliver mentioned earlier?”
“Yeah.” Courtney rubbed her fingers awkwardly. “Alex, are you really not interested in Jordan’s birth?”
“No.” Grabbing her hand, he exined, “She’s a woman I don’t know, so what can I do even if I found
out? Rather than making you feel awkward, it’s better that I don’t know anything at all and take it as this
woman didn’t exist. Since Jordan is still young now and thinks that you’re his mother, just let it be, then.
I consider you his birth mother.”
In fact, Alexander’s idea was very simple. Previously, when he found the woman who posed as Belle, it
had already created a rift between them. It just goes to show that it’s not the best thing to find out who
Jordan’s birth mother is, lest there be more misunderstandings. It’s better to just give up the
investigation, he thought.
Meanwhile, Courtney appeared to be in a daze. Many things had been hidden in her heart for too long,
and she didn’t know where to start.