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.

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

shape to make sense of Yerek’s concerns, he was forced to appease

kidnappers would not do anything rash before getting the ransom. Anya will be safe.”

us to gather that sum of money in the past, but. with the

be a way. Don’t worry.”

health precludes him from helping Anya can only count on you.

he had on hand which amounted to only at million, which was

of Gibson Corporation, he might be able to put together that

he was supposed to inherit were transferred

appeared, fully formed, in Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something for me at

a detention center with

as though seeing his savior. “When can I leave

here to discuss something

When Nigel heard that Yerek wanted to sell his shares in exchange for

in the company again

Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day. He will not cast you aside.”

stool,

promises me, it will never be as reassuring as the power

Why don’t you ask Yerek to convince him to sell his? If that isn’t enough, have him sell the properties under his name. He’s relying on my child to support him until he dies, anyway. The money will be ours sooner

and selfishness took the lawyer by

man and if it had been somebody else who had assigned him the case, he would have flung the documents at the despicable man’s face back in his

buyer willing to

was beginning to hesitate, so he employed every tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed

did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can

nodded dejectedly. The lawyer turned