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.

eye. As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom was not delivered, causing the entire Gibson family to descend

sense of Yerek’s

Grandma. Under ordinary circumstances, the kidnappers would not do anything rash before getting the ransom. Anya

us to gather that sum of money in the past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is

be a

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

Azure down, Yerek calculated the liquid cash he had on hand which amounted to only at million, which was still a long way off from twenty million

might be

the shares he was supposed to inherit were transferred to Christina, only Nigel

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

lawyer entered a detention center

lawyer as though seeing his savior. “When can I leave this

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

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

a say in the company again if I sell my

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

cold stool, reeling from

what Yerek promises me, it will never be as reassuring

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

and selfishness took the lawyer by

man and if it had been somebody else who had assigned him the case, he would have flung the documents at

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 ransom

lawyer could tell Nigel was beginning to hesitate, so he employed every tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed to convince Nigel to sign the

put the documents away as he rose, regarding Nigel as he did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing

The lawyer turned to