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.

cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom was not delivered, causing the entire Gibson family to descend into

sense of Yerek’s concerns, he was forced to appease

would not do anything rash

past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is in, there is no

a

helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck. I have some jewelry. Sell them and

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

be able to put together that

were transferred to Christina,

number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something

night, a lawyer entered a

as though seeing his savior. “When can

has sent me here to discuss something

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

have a say in

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

icy cold stool,

what Yerek promises me, it will never be as reassuring as the power remaining

in holding on to those shares if he can’t manage the company. Why don’t you

selfishness took the lawyer by surprise.

somebody else who had assigned him the case, he would have flung 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 can be put

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 agreement detailing the

as he did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can to

nodded dejectedly. The lawyer turned