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 themselves at him even without

uneasy. As there were scarcely any women by his side before, she had never considered

something I should

if he was comforting a small, furry creature. “There are occasions when I’m forced to be at such a place, but I will never interact

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

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

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

bobbed attractively. He had some alcohol and his

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

Nathaniel

back in bed by the time he emerged from his shower. He lay down beside

him. In fact, nobody else made

close to his. It was in this manner the couple savored each other’s heartbeats until dawn

at Hadley Corporation with an assistant first thing

they would go over during the meeting. As soon as the details were ironed out, they could then print

table, the five of them spent the entire morning going over the finer points of the agreement, going through

Seemingly irrelevant details contained a

spanning several pages, were only finalized that night after much revision. Then, Sebastian

his suit. “We’ve finally ironed

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

men headed for the

on Madison’s exquisite figure. “I

Taggart family, who cast aside her birthright to do something

slight smile

her own creation, Playboy, on the table. Luke picked one up and