Let Me Stay The Night

Chapter 287 A Sense Of Danger

Everyone standing around dispersed. Rayne also left while cradling her red and swollen face.

Nathaniel turned his gaze to Christina, whose eyes were slightly red. “The fashion show is over, so let’s go. home first.”

Suspicion lingered within Christina, but she did not want to ask too many questions in public. Hence, she merely grunted in acquiescence.

When the two of them had gotten in the car, a strained atmosphere hung in the air.

“Why did that woman earlier claim that the two of you are family?” The look in Christina’s eyes was grim, marred with obvious displeasure.

Nathaniel could distinctly sense that she was agitated. It was rare for him to see her in such a state, so he reached out and seized her chin, lifting her head up.

Her crystalline eyes shimmered like diamonds, beyond mesmerizing.

Perturbed by his stare, Christina urged huffily, “Well?”

A snort of laughter escaped Nathaniel, and he chuckled aloud. Well… she looks pretty adorable when she’s jealous.

“That was my paternal uncle’s daughter. They reside abroad and rarely return to the country, so you know about them.”

If she’s his paternal uncle’s daughter, that means she’s his paternal cousin,

Following that, Christina was skeptical about his claim. “Then, why isn’t her last name Hadley but Lacroix?”

This doesn’t make sense at all.

Cradling her face with a single hand, Nathaniel answered, “Because she took her mother’s family name.”

Even then, Christina was dubious. “You’ve got a lot of family members.”

“You can call and ask Mom if you don’t believe me.” Taking out his phone, Nathaniel made to ring Julia up.

However, Christina snatched the phone from him. “It’s late, so don’t disrupt their rest.”

not going to make a call because of a trivial matter and alert her to it. That would make me look

doesn’t matter. Nothing matters as long as

a big deal to disrupt them for a while since they’re the only ones who can clarify this familial relationship. Rendered

dead on her feet and did not

rest for a bit, a forceful collision hit the car without warning. Thrown

a wave of dizziness assailed her, the pain so excruciating that she

“Are you hurt. Christina?”

her face worriedly. He

the entire car, and he roared at the

“A car came barreling over

into their path like a manic wild wolf. If he had not turned the steering wheel quickly enough

hit the corner of his forehead, resulting in a gash. He could

stinging pain, he turned around to check on the situation in the back. “Are you okay,

thunder. He ordered through gritted teeth, “Go and see what’s

“Understood.”

acknowledgment, Sebastian swung open the car door and climbed

glance, one could tell that the other party’s car was, driving along a secondary road before rushing out right

the nick of time earlier, their injuries would

Sebastian returned to the car and reported, “The other party is responsible for the accident. Also, I reckon that the driver was driving under the influence. Let me

illumination of the moonlight, one could see the raging anger

agreement, he wound the car window

in an area that was relatively busy. Therefore, a

ambulance arrived. Nathaniel led Christina over for

still feeling a touch dizzy. When she alighted from the car, she abruptly

the exact same feeling as when she was pushed into the road the other

face promptly went deathly pale. Scanning her eyes over the crowd, she tried to figure out who was staring at her. Alas, every single pair of eyes was unfamiliar and

felt as though someone was watching her

this incident really an accident, or

his head and asked in concern. “What’s

I’m fine.” Christina swallowed the doubt on

followed the man to the ambulance. A medical staff inquired about

not shake off the feeling that someone was watching her, yet she had no idea who it was.