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?”

are a dime in a dozen in places 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

her feel uneasy. As there were scarcely any women by his side before, she had never considered that

I should keep an

was comforting a small, furry creature. “There are occasions when I’m forced to be at such

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

stare at beautiful women? Even I will do a

to consume her. “I promise I wouldn’t. I’m going to take a

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

out from his shirt and gave a cough to

in assent, Nathaniel

time he emerged

body scent calmed him. In fact, nobody else made him

body close to his. It was in this manner the couple

with an assistant first thing

any term they would go over

spent the entire morning going over the finer points of

the juxtaposition between business and war. Seemingly irrelevant details contained a calculated division of benefits, which could be taken advantage of by the opponent at

spanning several pages, were only finalized that night after much revision. Then,

and straightened his suit. “We’ve finally ironed out everything. Come,

up. It’s not an unreasonable request to have a drink after completing the

headed for the bar in the office.

linger on Madison’s exquisite figure. “I never knew how talented your secretary is,

long ago that Nathaniel’s secretary was the heiress to the Taggart family, who cast

slight smile but did

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