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.

her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers

shape to make sense of

do anything

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 amount.”

will be a way.

remains locked up, and your father’s health precludes him from helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck.

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

shares of Gibson Corporation, he might be able to put together that sum over the

transferred to Christina, only Nigel still had some on hand.

“I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something

a detention center

his savior.

to discuss something

Yerek wanted

never have a say in the company again

Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day. He will not cast you aside.”

icy cold stool, reeling from the devastating

promises me, it will never be

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

took the lawyer

him the case, he would have flung the documents at the despicable

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 can be put

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

as he did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can to get

The lawyer turned to