A Crazy Night Novel

Chapter 264 Unrequited

She was greeted by a gust of cold air upon exiting the private room, dampening the warmth that had arisen in her.

Walking behind Nathaniel, Madison replayed the incident of him spurning Luke for her.

Mr. Hadley cares about me. He rejects another man’s advances toward me as soon as he sees his intentions.

Lowering her head, Madison smiled surreptitiously to herself.

As soon as they emerged from the hotel entrance, Sebastian sent Nathaniel home.

Madison stared until the black Maybach disappeared into the distance before looking away reluctantly.

It was late at night when he arrived back at Scenic Garden Manor.

Nathaniel pushed open the door and found Christina on the couch, exploring an illustration software on her tablet.

She wore her hair in a ponytail and was dressed in a long sleeping gown. She wore a pair of white socks, and the way her feet swung idly looked endearing.

Hearing the footsteps, Christina turned around. She narrowed her eyes. “Have you been smoking, Mr. Hadley?”

The stench of alcohol and burnt tobacco was especially pungent against the faint fragrance of the room.

Only when he sniffed his jacket did Nathaniel realize it stank. “I had business to discuss earlier.”

Like an agile kitten, Christina leaped off the couch and arrived before him in several quick strides. “At a karaoke lounge? Or a private room? Were there pretty girls to drink with you?”

in a dozen in places like those, with one to light one’s cigarette and another to pour one’s drinks. They’re all the same. Nathaniel is handsome. Surely there will be women who would throw

thought made her feel uneasy. As there were scarcely any women by his side before, she had never considered that a

appears to be something I should

“There are occasions when I’m

hands. Her gaze twinkled like a curious child’s. “What makes you so sure that you wouldn’t talk to them? What if you meet someone vivacious

at beautiful women? Even I will do a double–take when I see handsome movie

consume her. “I promise I wouldn’t.

apple, which bobbed attractively. He had some alcohol and his skin was flushed pink which made him look as if he smelled

from his shirt and gave a cough to mask her

Nathaniel entered

the time he emerged from his

calmed him. In fact, nobody else

her tiny body close to his. It was in this manner the couple

with an assistant first thing the

computers on which they could make immediate amendments to any term they would go over during the meeting. As soon as

the meeting table, the five of them spent the entire morning going over the finer points of the agreement, going through several cups of coffee

details contained a calculated division of benefits,

night after

rose from his seat and straightened his suit. “We’ve finally ironed out everything.

stood up. It’s not an unreasonable request to have

headed for the bar in the office. Madison made

Luke allowed his gaze to linger on Madison’s exquisite figure. “I never

the heiress to the Taggart family, who cast aside her birthright

a slight smile but did not

glasses of a mix of her own creation, Playboy, on