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?”

women are a dime 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 themselves at him even without being paid

her feel uneasy. As there were scarcely any women by his

to be something I should

furry creature. “There are occasions when I’m forced to be

twinkled like a curious child’s. “What makes you so sure that you wouldn’t talk to them? What if

Even I will do a double–take when I see handsome movie stars

gaze darkened. His beady eyes seemed to consume her. “I promise I wouldn’t. I’m going

some alcohol and his skin was flushed pink which made him look as if he smelled like a

his muscular chest peeking out from his shirt and gave a cough to mask her

assent, Nathaniel entered

in bed by the time he

him. In fact, nobody else made

lithe arm wrapped around Christina’s waist, pulling her tiny body close to his. It was in this manner the couple savored each other’s

Corporation with an assistant first thing

Madison prepared the documents and the computers on which they could make immediate amendments to any term they would

the entire morning going over the finer points of the agreement, going through several

contained a calculated division of benefits, which could be taken advantage of by the opponent at the slightest

terms, spanning several pages, were only finalized that night after much

suit. “We’ve finally ironed out everything. Come, let’s have

stood up. It’s not an unreasonable request

two men headed for the bar in the office. Madison made

his gaze to linger on Madison’s exquisite figure. “I never knew how talented your

Nathaniel’s secretary was the heiress to the Taggart family, who cast aside her birthright to do something so blatantly obvious that everybody knew her

gave a slight smile but did

of her own creation, Playboy, on the table. Luke picked