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?”

women 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.

any women by his side before, she had never considered that a

appears to be something I

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

that you wouldn’t talk to them? What if you meet someone vivacious and beautiful? Wouldn’t you want

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

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

He had some alcohol and his skin was flushed

away from his muscular chest peeking out from his

assent, Nathaniel entered the

the time he emerged from his shower. He lay

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

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

appeared at Hadley Corporation with an assistant

Madison prepared 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

the finer points of the agreement,

the discussion was conducted by only two people–exemplifying the juxtaposition between business and war. Seemingly irrelevant details contained a calculated division of benefits, which could

night after much revision. Then, Sebastian left to print the

suit. “We’ve finally ironed

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

for the bar in the office.

Madison’s exquisite figure. “I never

Nathaniel’s secretary was the heiress to the Taggart family, who cast aside her birthright to do something so blatantly obvious that everybody

slight smile but did not

her own creation, Playboy, on