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

of Yerek’s concerns, he was forced to

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

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

will be a

and your father’s health precludes him from helping Anya can only count on

Yerek calculated the liquid cash he had on hand which amounted to only

Gibson Corporation, he might be able to

the shares he was supposed to inherit were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still

plan appeared, fully formed, in Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough

a lawyer entered a

his savior. “When can I leave this godforsaken

sent me here to discuss something urgent

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

way! I will never have a say in the

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

stool, reeling

promises me, it will never be as reassuring as the

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

and selfishness took the

it had been somebody else who had assigned him the

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

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

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

lawyer turned