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.

Anya was the apple of her eye. As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard

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

kidnappers would not do anything rash before getting the ransom. Anya

easy for us to gather that sum of money in the past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson

will be a

helping Anya can only count on

the liquid cash he had on hand which amounted to only

might be able to put

to inherit were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still had

plan appeared, fully formed, in Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something for me at

night, a lawyer entered a detention center with

though seeing his savior. “When can I leave this

Yerek has sent me here to discuss something urgent with you,”

Nigel heard that Yerek wanted to sell

will never have a say in the company

than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will

stool, reeling from the devastating

me, it will never be as

he can’t manage the company. Why don’t you ask Yerek to convince him to sell his? If that isn’t enough, have

took the

Yerek’s right-hand man and if it had been somebody else who had assigned him the case,

time. There’s currently a buyer willing to pay handsomely for Gibson Corporation’s shares. If you would just

persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour,

documents away as he rose, regarding Nigel as he did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can to

dejectedly. The lawyer turned to leave.