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.

heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom was not delivered, causing

no shape to make sense of Yerek’s concerns, he was forced to appease

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

past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is in,

a way. Don’t

health precludes him from helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck. I have some jewelry. Sell them and get some

cash he had on hand which amounted to

resell the shares of Gibson Corporation, he might be

were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still had some on

dialed a number. “I need you to

a

looked at the lawyer as though seeing his savior. “When can I leave this godforsaken place?”

to discuss something urgent with you,”

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

have a say in the company again if

Gibson. Are your shares more important than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day. He will not cast you aside.”

collapsed onto the icy cold stool, reeling from

never be as reassuring as the power remaining in my hands.

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 to support him until he dies, anyway. The money

took the lawyer

he were not Yerek’s right-hand man and if it had been somebody else who had assigned him the case, he would have flung the documents at the

frowned. “Even if your brother agreed to sell the assets under his name, Mr. Gibson, there’s not enough time. There’s currently a buyer willing to

so he employed every tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in

Nigel as he did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can to get you out of here. Be patient for a

dejectedly. The lawyer turned to leave.