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?”

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

As there were scarcely any women by his side before, she had

to be something I should keep an

creature. “There are occasions

“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 when I see handsome movie stars or

eyes seemed to consume her. “I promise I wouldn’t. I’m going

he loosened his tie 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 he smelled

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

Nathaniel entered the

he emerged from his

fact, nobody

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

appeared at Hadley Corporation with an assistant

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

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

between business and war. Seemingly irrelevant details contained a calculated division of benefits, which could be taken advantage of by the opponent at the

spanning several pages, were only finalized that night after

“We’ve

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

the two men headed for the bar in the

to linger on Madison’s exquisite figure. “I never knew how

secretary was the heiress to the Taggart family, who

slight smile but did not

mix of her own creation, Playboy, on the