A Crazy Night Novel

Chapter 287 A Sense Of Danger

Everyone standing around dispersed. Rayne also left while cradling her red and swollen face.

Nathaniel turned his gaze to Christina, whose eyes were slightly red. “The fashion show is over, so let’s go. home first.”

Suspicion lingered within Christina, but she did not want to ask too many questions in public. Hence, she merely grunted in acquiescence.

When the two of them had gotten in the car, a strained atmosphere hung in the air.

“Why did that woman earlier claim that the two of you are family?” The look in Christina’s eyes was grim, marred with obvious displeasure.

Nathaniel could distinctly sense that she was agitated. It was rare for him to see her in such a state, so he reached out and seized her chin, lifting her head up.

Her crystalline eyes shimmered like diamonds, beyond mesmerizing.

Perturbed by his stare, Christina urged huffily, “Well?”

A snort of laughter escaped Nathaniel, and he chuckled aloud. Well… she looks pretty adorable when she’s jealous.

“That was my paternal uncle’s daughter. They reside abroad and rarely return to the country, so you know about them.”

If she’s his paternal uncle’s daughter, that means she’s his paternal cousin,

Following that, Christina was skeptical about his claim. “Then, why isn’t her last name Hadley but Lacroix?”

This doesn’t make sense at all.

Cradling her face with a single hand, Nathaniel answered, “Because she took her mother’s family name.”

Even then, Christina was dubious. “You’ve got a lot of family members.”

“You can call and ask Mom if you don’t believe me.” Taking out his phone, Nathaniel made to ring Julia up.

However, Christina snatched the phone from him. “It’s late, so don’t disrupt their rest.”

trivial matter and alert her to it. That would make me

calm and unruffled. “It doesn’t matter.

can clarify this familial relationship. Rendered speechless, Christina locked the

feet and did not want to waste her energy on such

about to lean against the window to rest for a bit, a forceful collision hit the car without warning. Thrown out of

the heels of that, a wave of dizziness

“Are you hurt. Christina?”

into his arms, Nathaniel roamed his eyes over her face worriedly. He glimpsed a red mark on her

pervaded the entire car, and he roared

driver was still reeling, his voice quivering as he spoke. “A car came barreling over out of nowhere earlier, and I couldn’t avoid

hurtled into their path like a manic wild wolf. If he had not turned the steering wheel quickly enough just now, the

also hit the corner of his forehead, resulting in a gash. He could clearly sense blood trickling down his

stinging pain, he turned around to check on the situation in the back. “Are you

as black as thunder. He ordered

“Understood.”

open the car door and

both cars was severely dented. At a single glance, one could tell that the

the way in the nick of time earlier,

the accident. Also, I reckon that the driver was driving under the influence. Let me make a police

backseat, Nathaniel wound the car window down an inch. With the illumination of the moonlight, one could see the

in agreement, he wound the car window back

was relatively busy. Therefore, a crowd gathered around the

after, the ambulance arrived. Nathaniel led Christina over

the car, she

feeling as when she was pushed

face promptly went deathly pale. Scanning her eyes over the crowd, she tried to figure out who was staring at her. Alas, every single pair of eyes was unfamiliar and

though someone

has been arrested? Was this incident really an accident, or

Nathaniel lowered his head and asked in

swallowed the doubt on

to the ambulance. A medical staff inquired about her injuries

the feeling that someone was watching her, yet she had no idea who it was. Such a feeling was