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?”

drinks. They’re all the same. Nathaniel is handsome. Surely there will be women who would throw themselves at him even without being paid

women by his side before,

I should keep an eye

darkened momentarily. He caressed Christina’s hair as if he was comforting a small, furry creature. “There are occasions when I’m forced to be at such a place, but I will

child’s. “What makes you so sure that you wouldn’t talk to them? What if you meet

men to stare at beautiful women? Even I will do a double–take when I see

His beady eyes seemed to consume her.

He had some alcohol and his skin was flushed pink which made him look

away from his muscular chest peeking out from his shirt and gave

Nathaniel

the time he emerged

scent calmed him. In fact, nobody else made him

lithe arm wrapped around Christina’s waist, pulling her tiny body close to his. It

appeared at Hadley Corporation with an assistant

coffee, Madison prepared the documents and the computers on which they could make immediate amendments to any term they would go over during the meeting.

going over the finer points of

the juxtaposition between business and war. Seemingly irrelevant details contained

only finalized that night after much

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

a bar in my office.” Nathaniel, too, stood up. It’s not an unreasonable request to have a drink after

the bar in the office.

the bar, Luke allowed his gaze to linger on Madison’s exquisite figure.

long ago that Nathaniel’s secretary was the heiress to the Taggart family, who cast aside her birthright to do something

gave a slight smile but did not

two glasses of a mix of her own creation, Playboy, on the table. Luke picked