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.

on in years, and Anya was the apple of her eye. As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would

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

worry, Grandma. Under ordinary circumstances, the kidnappers would not do anything

of money in the past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is in, there

be a way. Don’t worry.”

uncle remains locked up, and your father’s health precludes him from helping Anya can only count

Yerek calculated the liquid cash he had on hand which amounted to only at million, which was still a long way off from

be able

were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still had

Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and

night, a lawyer entered a

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

sent me here to discuss something urgent with

that Yerek wanted to sell his shares in

will never have a say in the company again if I sell

life? Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day.

cold stool, reeling from the devastating

me, it will never be as reassuring as the power remaining in my

going 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

took the lawyer by

else who had assigned him the case, he would have flung

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

every tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed to

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

nodded dejectedly. The lawyer turned