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

any women by his

I should keep an eye

comforting a small, furry creature. “There are occasions when

so sure that you wouldn’t talk to them? What if you meet someone vivacious and beautiful? Wouldn’t you want to speak with

human nature for men to stare at beautiful women? Even I will

seemed to consume her. “I

loosened his tie 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. “Hurry

Nathaniel entered the

back in bed by the time he

him. In fact, nobody

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

Hadley Corporation with an

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

around the meeting table, the five of them spent the entire morning going over the finer points of the agreement, going through several cups of coffee as

between business and war. Seemingly irrelevant details contained a calculated

that night after much revision. Then,

“We’ve finally ironed out

up. It’s not

headed for the bar in

on the bar, Luke allowed his gaze to linger on Madison’s exquisite figure. “I never knew how

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

smile but did not

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