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.

years, and Anya was the apple of her eye. As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard

make sense of Yerek’s concerns,

circumstances, the kidnappers would not do anything rash before getting the ransom.

past, but. with the

will be a way.

can only count on you. Yerck. I have some jewelry. Sell them and get some money

he had on hand which amounted to only at million, which was still a long way off from twenty million

Corporation, he might be

supposed to inherit were transferred

number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something for me at

a

seeing his savior. “When can I leave

discuss something urgent with you,” the lawyer

that Yerek wanted to

have a say in the company again if

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

icy cold stool, reeling from the devastating

Yerek promises me, it will never be as reassuring as the power remaining in my

Gibson Corporation’s subsidiary 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 ask Yerek to convince him to sell his? If that

greed and selfishness took the lawyer by

who had assigned him the case, he would

there’s not enough time. There’s currently a buyer

tell Nigel was beginning to hesitate, so he employed every tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed to convince Nigel to sign the agreement

so. “Mr. Yerek is

nodded dejectedly. The lawyer turned to leave.