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?”

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

scarcely any women by

appears to be something I should keep an

“There

you so sure that you

Even I will do a

darkened. His beady eyes seemed to consume her. “I promise I wouldn’t. I’m going

which bobbed attractively. He had some alcohol and his skin was flushed pink which made

chest peeking out from

Nathaniel

in bed by the time he

fact, nobody

waist, pulling her tiny body close to his.

appeared at Hadley Corporation with an assistant first thing

could make immediate amendments to any term they would go over during the meeting. As soon as the details were ironed out,

five of them spent the entire morning going over the finer points of the agreement, going through several cups of coffee as they did

irrelevant details contained a calculated division of benefits, which could

finalized that night after

from his seat and straightened his suit. “We’ve finally ironed out everything. Come, let’s

my office.” Nathaniel, too, stood up. It’s not an unreasonable request to have a drink

file, the two men headed for the bar

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

secretary was the heiress to the Taggart family, who cast aside her birthright to do something so blatantly obvious

slight smile but did

placed two glasses of a mix of her own creation, Playboy, on the table.