A Night To Remember novel (Diane and Norman) novel Chapter 26

Chapter 26 He Wouldn’t Have Actually Fallen for Her, Would He

Meanwhile, a conversation was taking place at Stardust Hotel.

“What’s wrong with you? You’ve been absent-minded all night.” Denzel Howard stretched out his arm and wrapped it around Christopher’s shoulder. He then asked, “Now that the collaboration with the 3A Group has been finalized, why do you look so unhappy?”

“No, I’m not.” After coming to his senses, Christopher glanced at Denzel unemotionally. “Thank you for what you did.”

“There’s nothing to thank me for.” Denzel waved his hand casually. “Smith and I studied at the same university, and he’s the heir to the 3A Group. Besides, we are buddies, and all I did was act as the middleman between you and him. It isn’t a big deal, so don’t stand on ceremony with me. Let’s talk about you instead—what are you thinking about?”

What am I thinking about? This hotel, probably. What a coincidence that Denzel chose to negotiate the collaboration here. This is where I spent a night with that woman, and we even ended up having a baby…

Christopher frowned slightly, for he also felt that he had let his mind wander a little too far that day. He always prioritized his work over everything else, so how could he be absent-minded all night because of such a tiny coincidence?

“Hey, Christopher!” When he noticed how silent Christopher was, Denzel assumed that he was zoning out again. Hence, he shook his hands in front of him.

Just then, the cell phone in Christopher’s pocket rang. As he took out his cell phone, Denzel immediately leaned over. When he saw the name ‘Diane Cornell’ flashing on the phone’s screen, he teased and said, “Who is this? Is it your wife? Is she calling to ask where you are? Are you even a man, Christopher? How could you become so obedient to your wife just days after getting married?”

The furrows in Christopher’s brow deepened. After staring at the phone’s screen for a while, he eventually decided against answering the phone in front of Denzel. As such, he put his cell phone back into his pocket and said, “You’re kidding me. How could she be asking me where I am?” He raised his long eyebrows coldly with nonchalance written all over his face.

Denzel laughed. “That’s more like it—that’s more like what a man does. I thought you were going to have a change of personality to the extent that you’d go home without hesitation as soon as your wife calls you, Young Master Wayne.”

“How could that be possible?” Christopher shot him a disdainful look.

Denzel bared his teeth in a grin. With his arm hooked around Christopher’s shoulder, he then suggested, “In that case, let’s not go back tonight. We’ll find somewhere else, have another drink or two, and have Jeremy and the others over. It’s been ages since we’ve last gathered. Let’s go…”

In the end, Christopher left with Denzel without saying a word. He thought to himself, A change of personality… If I fall in love with a woman, I might change my personality for her. However, Diane will never be this woman—there won’t be such a thing as love between us.

The night was dark, and the cell phone in his pocket never rang again.

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Meanwhile, Diane clenched her cell phone in her hand and stared at it for a long time after making a phone call at the police station, but she didn’t try again. She didn’t know whether it was fear or something else that had gotten into her, but she didn’t want to call him again regardless.

After giving it some thought, she ended up calling Scott. Since Scott was Christopher’s assistant, dealing with such a problem shouldn’t be a problem to him.

Fortunately, the call got through and Scott came without asking much.

Over half an hour later, the police took her to the mediation room. Meanwhile, Norman and Stella had arrived as well.

In the beginning, Elizabeth still demanded for Diane to be imprisoned at first. After the police told her that Diane’s actions did not constitute a criminal offense, she kicked up a racket for a while. After seeing that nothing could be done to Diane, she finally stopped clamoring.

Since she failed to get Diane imprisoned, she began to ask for compensation again. However, the police told her to go to court instead, saying that she had to bring a lawsuit against Diane and hand the matter over to the court if she wanted to seek compensation.

Diane and Scott never spoke during the process, for they both knew that it was better to let the police deal with someone like Elizabeth. The more they responded to Elizabeth, the more trouble they would get themselves into.

This incident was trivial in the first place, so the police didn’t want to keep them there overnight. Seeing that both sides had someone standing bail for them, they simply skipped mediating between Elizabeth and Diane. After having both sides go through the procedures, they had Elizabeth and Diane released.