One Night Surprise Novel

Chapter 22 Let Tina Come Over and Play

At the end of the day, it simply meant that Jordan had autism.

“I’m sorry—I didn’t mean to pry too much,” said Courtney as she apologized sincerely. “How about this? Let me pay for today’s meal in order to express my sincerest apologies.”

Right then, Alexander came back to his senses and saw her flustered face. He soon realized that his attitude was too harsh. After all, she was the one who saved Jordan’s life. He softened his tone and explained, “It’s not that Jordan can’t talk; he just chooses not to talk.”

Courtney nodded and decided to stop asking questions.

Meanwhile, Jordan sat in the midst of an ocean of colorful balls. When he suddenly lost sight of Tina, he frowned and a panicked look crossed over his face.

“Haha!” All of a sudden, the ocean of balls exploded in front of him as Tina emerged under it and looked at him with a big smile. “I’m here!”

Jordan was startled by her and clamored up; it seemed like this was the first time someone had ever played with him like that.

Tina was taken aback. “What’s wrong?”

Jordan shook his head. Suddenly, he grabbed her hand and pointed at the table—he wanted to go back.

Even though she still wanted to play, Tina saw the look of shock on Jordan’s face and nodded understandingly. “Are you hungry? Let’s go back.”

While they were having their meals, Jordan insisted on sitting next to Courtney despite Alexander’s countless attempts to discourage him. Tina was quite generous as she climbed onto the seat next to Alexander and said, “Since he likes my mommy so much, you should just let him sit next to her. I’ll just sit here.”

Since Courtney seemed fine with it, Alexander let the matter slide and looked at the cute little girl who was sitting next to him; he felt that she was quite pleasing to the eyes. “His name is Jordan,” said Alexander to Tina.

obediently. As she thought of a question, she immediately asked, “That’s right—how

five years old. His birthday is a

a moment. A day before the Mid-Autumn Festival? What a coincidence!

“What about you?”

Alexander’s question, Tina scratched her head and looked at Courtney for help. She was unable to remember her own birthday—after all, she was only a

she blurted out that Tina’s birthday was a month apart

on the 14th of

with his question, dismissing it as a casual and

dessert arrived, Tina ate it with excitement while Jordan ate in silence, but judging from the clean dessert plate, it was quite obvious that he was pleased as

they ran to the play area again after finishing their meal. Meanwhile, Courtney and Alexander waited around for a bit. They were calm as they waited in the beginning, but as time dragged on, Courtney began to check

countless reminders, Courtney finally said, “We have to

ocean of balls. “No, I want to

“Tina Hunter.”

full name, it meant

tactic normally worked, but Tina seemed so courageous all of a sudden that she completely ignored her mother’s warning and continued to play with Jordan

dragged Tina out. “It’s already late—you have to go home

was held by Courtney, so she quickly used the other to grab Alexander’s pants. “Save me, Mr.

he played outside, so he didn’t care how long Jordan wanted to play. Besides, he seemed to have taken a liking to Tina. With that, he swiftly fished Tina out of Courtney’s hands and

to do at home anyway, Mommy. Why

almost had a heart attack when

this instant… I’m sorry President

to come down. Courtney usually raised her hands to pat Tina’s buttocks as a threat, but now that the latter had Alexander as her shield, Courtney had no other means

gave in and huffed helplessly. “You’d better put her down, President Duncan. It seems like she’s lacking discipline—I’d have to go