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.

lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom was

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

would not do anything

ransom of twenty million! It would’ve been easy for us to gather that sum of money in the past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is in, there is no way we can amass this

a way. Don’t

count on you. Yerck. I have some

which amounted

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

inherit were transferred

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

night, a lawyer entered a detention center with a

though seeing his savior. “When can I leave this godforsaken

something urgent with you,” the lawyer announced

Yerek wanted to sell his shares in exchange for

way! I will never have a say in the company again if I

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

cold stool, reeling from the devastating

matter what Yerek promises me, it will never be as reassuring as the power remaining in

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

took the lawyer by

assigned him the case, he would have flung the documents at the despicable man’s face back in his youth.

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

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

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

lawyer