A Crazy Night Novel

Nathaniel had always been independent-minded since he was a child. Nobody could ever influence his decisions.

Thus, Charlie had already gotten used to Nathaniel’s aloof response to his advice.

Nathaniel caught the ball Lucas had accidentally kicked in his direction and stood up casually.

“I will protect my family.”

He strode toward the children following that haughty declaration.

Julia appeared beside Charlie with a platter of fruits. She watched as he took a sip of tea while staring fixedly at his cup, so she asked, “Penny for your thoughts?”

Charlie sighed. “He’s become more capable than me. My son, indeed.”

Julia fell silent for a split second as she could make neither head nor tail of her husband’s remark, which came out of nowhere. She then laughed. “Well, of course. I gave birth to him, after all. I think he takes after me.”

Smiling wordlessly, Charlie wisely refrained from making a comment lest he was sentenced to spend the Tight in the study.

That night, the Hadley residence was filled with laughter and chatter while the Gibson residence was enveloped in an awful, tense gloom.

Azure had received a call from the kidnappers demanding twenty million in ransom, which was to be collected by daybreak and sent to a location of their choosing at a predetermined time.

Seized by panic, she sought Timothy and Yerek to discuss a strategy: the latter only found out about Anya’s kidnapping that night.

After Azure relayed the whole situation, Yerek raised several points of concern.

The kidnappers did not immediately demand a ransom after getting their hands on Anya. Instead, they waited almost a full day to call her family.

Yerek thought the behavior strange, as kidnappers had no other motives for committing such a risky crime aside from money.

in years, and Anya was the apple of her eye. As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom

to make sense of Yerek’s concerns, he was forced to appease her first.

not do anything rash before getting the ransom.

twenty million! It would’ve been easy for us to gather that sum of money in the past, but. with

will be a way.

father’s health precludes him from helping Anya can only count on

calming Azure down, Yerek calculated the liquid cash he had on hand which amounted to only at million, which was still a long way off from twenty

shares of Gibson Corporation, he might be

transferred to

mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something for me

a

at the lawyer as though seeing his savior. “When

discuss something urgent with

Yerek’s message. When Nigel heard that Yerek wanted to sell his shares

say in the company again if I sell

Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day. He will not cast

icy cold stool, reeling from the

never be as reassuring as

company. Besides, he’s always been useless. There’s no point in holding on to those shares if he can’t manage the company. Why don’t you

took the

and if it had been somebody else who had assigned him the case,

Mr. Gibson, there’s not enough time. There’s currently a buyer willing to pay handsomely for Gibson

persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour,

the documents away as he rose, regarding Nigel as he did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can to get you out of here. Be patient for a few

The lawyer turned to