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.

years, and Anya was the apple of her eye. As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill

of Yerek’s concerns, he

kidnappers would not do anything rash before getting the ransom. Anya will be safe.”

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

will be a way. Don’t worry.”

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

which amounted to only at

Gibson Corporation, he might be

was supposed to inherit were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still

dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something for me at

entered a detention center

seeing his savior. “When can I leave this

me here to discuss something urgent

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

say in the company

life? Mr. Yerek will take

the icy cold stool, reeling from

Yerek promises me, it will never be as reassuring as the power remaining in my hands.

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 my

greed and selfishness took

had assigned him the case, he would have flung the documents at the despicable man’s face

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

and in half an hour, managed to convince Nigel to sign the agreement detailing

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

lawyer turned to leave.