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.

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

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

worry, Grandma. Under ordinary circumstances, the kidnappers would not do anything

twenty million! It would’ve been easy for us to gather that sum of money in the past, but.

be a way. Don’t worry.”

count

Azure down, Yerek calculated the liquid cash he had on hand which amounted

Gibson Corporation, he might be able to

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

mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something

a lawyer entered a detention center with a

at the lawyer as though seeing his

me here to discuss something urgent

message. When Nigel heard that Yerek wanted

say in the

than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will take over

the icy cold stool, reeling from the

me, it will never be

going to give up without a fight. “What about my brother? He still 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 child

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

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

he employed every tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed to convince Nigel to sign the agreement detailing the

lawyer 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. Be patient for

nodded dejectedly. The lawyer turned to leave.