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.

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

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

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

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

a way. Don’t worry.”

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

the liquid cash he had on hand which amounted to only at million, which was still a long

could resell the shares of Gibson Corporation, he might be able to put together that sum over the next few hours.

were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still had some

number. “I need you

a lawyer entered a detention center

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

sent me here to discuss something urgent with you,” the lawyer

wanted to sell his shares in

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

more important than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day. He will not cast

cold stool,

will never be as reassuring as the power remaining in

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

and selfishness took the lawyer by surprise.

it had been somebody else who had assigned him the case, he would have flung the documents at the despicable man’s face back in his youth.

there’s not enough time. There’s currently a buyer willing to pay handsomely for Gibson

and

did so. “Mr. Yerek is

dejectedly. The lawyer turned to