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?”

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

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

be something I should keep an

momentarily. He caressed Christina’s hair as if he was comforting a small, furry creature. “There are

that you wouldn’t talk to

beautiful women? Even I will do a double–take when I see handsome movie stars or models at work.

seemed to consume her.

and exposed his Adam’s apple, which bobbed attractively. He had some alcohol and his skin was flushed pink which made him look as if

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

Nathaniel

he emerged from his shower. He

sweet body scent calmed him. In fact, nobody else made him

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

appeared at Hadley Corporation with an

documents and the computers on which they could make immediate amendments to any term they would go over during the

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

the juxtaposition between business and war. Seemingly irrelevant details contained a calculated division of benefits, which

several pages, were only finalized that night after much

rose from his seat and straightened his suit. “We’ve finally ironed out everything. Come, let’s have a

It’s not an unreasonable request to

file, the two men headed for the bar in the office.

Madison’s exquisite figure.

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

a slight smile but did

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