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.

she lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom was not delivered, causing the entire Gibson family to descend into complete chaos.

no shape to make sense of Yerek’s concerns, he was forced to appease her first.

the kidnappers would not do anything rash before

the past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson

be a way. Don’t worry.”

health precludes him from helping Anya can only count

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

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

were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still had some

appeared, fully formed, in Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something for me at once.”

a detention center with a

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

Yerek has sent me here to discuss something urgent with you,”

message. When Nigel heard that Yerek wanted to sell his shares in exchange for ransom,

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

shares more important than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one

stool, reeling from the devastating news.

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

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

and selfishness took

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

the assets under his name, 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 ransom can be put together just like

he employed every tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed to convince Nigel to sign

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

dejectedly. The lawyer turned to leave.