A Crazy Night Novel

As soon as those words fell, a terrified Azure tugged on Barnaby’s sleeve with a pleading look in her “Don’t agree to it,” she begged.

Enraged, Barnaby shook her off and replied haughtily, “Mrs. Hadley, we’ll do it your way then.”

“No!” Azure blurted as the crowd’s eyes fell on her. “Having your children apologize to me isn’t going to completely undo all the bad reputation I’m getting. Don’t you think you’re being very unfair by making such a request?”

At that instant, Barnaby wished he could shove something into Azure’s mouth to shut her up. “Hmph! Why would we fear being incriminated if we’ve done nothing wrong? There’s no point in Azure meddling with something so trivial. I believe the Hadleys still have some credibility.”

Azure had a pained expression on her face as she heard that. Barnaby had taken matters into his own hands out of fear that she would cause more trouble.

“The investigation will take some time. I have other matters to deal with, so I’ll be taking my leave now. Please have someone update me when the results are out, Mrs. Hadley,” the elderly man requested. “She’ll come with me since there hasn’t been any solid evidence yet.”

He was already respecting Christina and the Hadley family enough.

“If you’re taking her with you, I hope you’ll at least keep to your word,” Nathaniel remarked.

Barnaby scoffed. “Worry not, Mr. Hadley. You’ll get everything as promised.”

Then, he left with Azure.

Nathaniel shot Sebastian a glance, and the latter used a handkerchief to soak up the spilled wine, placed the cloth into a zip–lock bag, and instructed someone to have it examined.

With that, the unpleasant interlude came to an end.

“It’s all my fault,” Charlie lamented, blaming himself. “They wouldn’t have come looking for trouble with you if I hadn’t spent so long outside on my phone. Thank goodness Lucas and Camila saw through Azure’s schemes beforehand. I can’t imagine what would’ve happened otherwise.”

The thought of the possible consequences sent a chill down his spine.

blame yourself.” Timothy smiled. “Anyway, you two should go attend to your

and

rushed up to them. “Mommy,

if you ever encounter something like this again, be sure to let an adult

was Granddad. He would’ve been in danger if we hadn’t

in agreement. “Lucas is

look after himself,” Christina advised despite feeling proud of them. “You’re still young, so you’ll have to make sure you’re safe

children answered in

“Very good.” Christina beamed.

a grave expression

Lucas and Camila

wrong, Nathaniel?” she

the sample that Sebastian had someone send to the lab. Someone stole it during the journey,” Nathaniel explained. “This may essentially

knitted, but her reaction was much calmer than Nathaniel had expected. “All the footage from the studio’s probably been wiped out

news, and just as Christina had predicted, they had

Barnaby acted so openly and fearlessly showed how much he wanted to burn

to get a technician right away, but even he couldn’t do anything

the Hadley family lightly anymore; he

suddenly recalled something and asked, “When is Nigel’s closest

for a moment before looking it up on his phone. “This coming

are trying to get Nigel a lighter sentence, then

they want something, the more we’ll

let them deal with this

Hadley.” The latter turned