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?”

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

thought made her feel uneasy. As there were scarcely any women by

be something I should keep an

if he was comforting a small, furry creature. “There

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

nature for 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

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

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

Nathaniel entered

by the time he emerged from

fact, nobody else made him

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

Corporation with an assistant first

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

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

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

terms, spanning several pages, were only finalized that night after much revision. Then, Sebastian left to print the

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

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

the two men headed for the bar in

Madison’s exquisite figure. “I never knew

to the Taggart family, who cast aside her birthright to do something so blatantly obvious that everybody knew her

a slight smile but did not

creation, Playboy, on the table. Luke picked one