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 the entire Gibson family

to make sense of Yerek’s concerns, he

Grandma. Under ordinary circumstances, the kidnappers would not do

It would’ve been easy for us to gather that sum of money in the past, but. with the current predicament that the

will be a way.

count on you. Yerck. I have some jewelry. Sell them and get some money

amounted to only at million, which was

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

to inherit were transferred

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

night, a lawyer entered a detention center with

the lawyer as though seeing his

something urgent with you,”

heard that Yerek wanted to sell

say in the company again if

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

collapsed onto the icy cold stool, reeling from the devastating

Yerek promises me, it will never be as reassuring as the power remaining in my hands.

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

greed and selfishness took the

been somebody else who had assigned him the case, he

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.”

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

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

lawyer