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.

on in years, and 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

to make sense of Yerek’s concerns, he was forced to appease her first.

circumstances, the kidnappers would not do anything rash

of money in the past, but. with the current predicament

a way.

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

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

the shares of Gibson Corporation, he might be able to put together that

to inherit were transferred to

Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to

night, a lawyer entered a detention center with a briefcase.

though seeing his savior.

something urgent with you,” the lawyer announced impassively.

When Nigel heard that Yerek wanted to sell his shares

have a say in the company again if I sell my

important than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day. He will not cast

collapsed onto the icy cold stool,

be as reassuring as the

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

took

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 despicable man’s face back in

sell 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 together just like that.”

up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed

Yerek is doing all he can to

The lawyer turned to leave.