Let Me Stay The Night

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?”

like those, with 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 who would throw themselves at him even without being paid

any women by his

something I should

caressed Christina’s hair as if he was comforting a small, furry creature. “There are occasions when I’m

twinkled like a curious child’s. “What makes you so sure that you wouldn’t talk to them? What if you

to stare at beautiful women? Even I will do a double–take

consume her. “I promise I

some alcohol and his skin

chest peeking out from his

in assent, Nathaniel

the time he emerged from

body scent calmed him. In fact,

waist, pulling her tiny body close to his. It was in this manner the couple savored each

Hadley Corporation with an assistant first thing the following

the documents and the computers on which they could make immediate amendments to any term they would go over during the meeting. As soon as the

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

Seemingly irrelevant details contained a calculated division of benefits, which could be taken advantage of by the opponent at the slightest lapse

finalized that night after

seat and straightened his suit. “We’ve finally

in my office.” Nathaniel, too, stood up. It’s not

headed for the bar in

his gaze to linger on Madison’s exquisite figure. “I never knew how talented your secretary

the heiress to the Taggart family, who cast aside her birthright to do

a slight smile but did not

two glasses of a mix of her own creation, Playboy, on the table. Luke picked one up