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.

Anya was the apple of her eye. As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom was not delivered, causing

shape to make sense of Yerek’s concerns, he was forced

kidnappers would not do anything rash

but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is in, there is

be a

him from helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck. I have some

liquid cash he had on hand which amounted to only at million, which was still a

resell the shares of Gibson Corporation, he might be able to put together that sum over the next few hours.

supposed to inherit were transferred to Christina, only Nigel

in Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something for me at

lawyer entered a detention center

seeing his savior. “When can I leave this godforsaken

me here to discuss something

Yerek’s message. When Nigel heard that Yerek wanted to sell his shares in exchange for ransom, he exploded.

a say in the company again if I

life? Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation

onto the icy cold stool, reeling from

it will never be

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,

selfishness took the

assigned him

frowned. “Even if your brother agreed to sell the assets under his name, Mr. Gibson, there’s not enough time. There’s currently a buyer willing to pay handsomely for Gibson Corporation’s shares. If you would just say the word, the

persuasion up his sleeve and in half

put the documents away as he rose, regarding Nigel as he did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can to get you out of here.

nodded dejectedly. The lawyer turned to leave.