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.

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

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

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

sum of money in the past, but.

be a way. Don’t worry.”

father’s health precludes him from helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck. I have some

which amounted to only at million, which

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

was supposed to inherit were transferred to Christina, only

need you to head to Jadeborough and

night, a lawyer entered a detention center with a

seeing his savior. “When can I leave

to discuss something urgent

wanted to

a say in the company again if I sell

your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will

onto the icy cold stool, reeling

it will never be as reassuring as the

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

greed and selfishness took the lawyer

else who had assigned him the case, he

lawyer 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 pay handsomely for Gibson Corporation’s shares. If you would just say the word, the ransom

of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed to convince Nigel to sign the agreement detailing the transfer of his

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 a few more

nodded dejectedly. The lawyer turned to