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.

was the apple of her eye. As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the

sense of Yerek’s concerns, he was forced

Grandma. Under ordinary circumstances, the kidnappers would not do

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

be a way. Don’t worry.”

only count on you. Yerck. I have

on hand which amounted

he might be able to put together that

was supposed to inherit were transferred

dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something for me at once.”

entered a detention center with a

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

here to discuss something urgent with you,” the

wanted to sell his shares in

in the company again if I sell my shares.”

daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will

onto the icy cold stool,

what Yerek promises me, it will never be

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 enough, have him sell the properties under his name. He’s relying on my child to support him until he dies, anyway. The money will be

selfishness took the

been somebody else who had assigned him the case, he would

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

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

did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can to get you out of here. Be

nodded dejectedly. The lawyer turned to leave.