Let Me Stay The Night

Nathaniel had always been independent-minded since he was a child. Nobody could ever influence his decisions.

Thus, Charlie had already gotten used to Nathaniel’s aloof response to his advice.

Nathaniel caught the ball Lucas had accidentally kicked in his direction and stood up casually.

“I will protect my family.”

He strode toward the children following that haughty declaration.

Julia appeared beside Charlie with a platter of fruits. She watched as he took a sip of tea while staring fixedly at his cup, so she asked, “Penny for your thoughts?”

Charlie sighed. “He’s become more capable than me. My son, indeed.”

Julia fell silent for a split second as she could make neither head nor tail of her husband’s remark, which came out of nowhere. She then laughed. “Well, of course. I gave birth to him, after all. I think he takes after me.”

Smiling wordlessly, Charlie wisely refrained from making a comment lest he was sentenced to spend the Tight in the study.

That night, the Hadley residence was filled with laughter and chatter while the Gibson residence was enveloped in an awful, tense gloom.

Azure had received a call from the kidnappers demanding twenty million in ransom, which was to be collected by daybreak and sent to a location of their choosing at a predetermined time.

Seized by panic, she sought Timothy and Yerek to discuss a strategy: the latter only found out about Anya’s kidnapping that night.

After Azure relayed the whole situation, Yerek raised several points of concern.

The kidnappers did not immediately demand a ransom after getting their hands on Anya. Instead, they waited almost a full day to call her family.

Yerek thought the behavior strange, as kidnappers had no other motives for committing such a risky crime aside from money.

As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom was

she was in no shape to make sense of

would not do anything

million! It would’ve been easy for us to gather that sum of money in the past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is in, there is no way we can amass

be a way. Don’t

only count on you. Yerck. I have some jewelry. Sell them and get some money

hand which amounted to only at million, which was

shares of Gibson Corporation, he might be able

were transferred to

plan appeared, fully formed, in Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to

lawyer entered a detention center

seeing his savior. “When can I leave this godforsaken place?”

has sent me here to discuss something urgent with you,”

that Yerek wanted to sell his shares in exchange for

have a say in the company again

Gibson. Are your shares more important than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day.

the icy cold stool,

never be as reassuring as the power

a fight. “What about my brother? He still has shares in Gibson Corporation’s subsidiary company. Besides, he’s always been useless. There’s no point in holding on to those shares if he can’t manage the company. Why don’t you ask Yerek to convince him to sell his? If that isn’t enough, have him sell the properties under his name. He’s relying on

took the lawyer by surprise.

assigned him the case, he would

under his name, Mr. Gibson, there’s not enough time. There’s currently a buyer willing to pay handsomely for Gibson Corporation’s shares.

of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed to convince Nigel to

so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can to get you out of here. Be

The lawyer turned to