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 the entire Gibson family to descend into complete chaos.

was in no shape to make sense of Yerek’s concerns,

do anything rash before getting the ransom. Anya will be

past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is in, there is no way we can amass

be a way. Don’t worry.”

locked up, and your father’s health precludes him from helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck. I have some jewelry. Sell them

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

Gibson Corporation, he might be able to

he was supposed to inherit were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still had some

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

lawyer entered a

though seeing his

has sent me here to discuss something

Yerek wanted to sell his shares in exchange for

in

more important than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek

icy cold stool, reeling from the

be as reassuring as the

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

greed and selfishness took the lawyer

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

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 can be

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

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

The lawyer turned