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.

As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard the

shape to make sense of Yerek’s concerns, he

not do

of money in the past, but. with the current

will be a way.

and your father’s health precludes him from helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck. I have some jewelry. Sell them and get some money in Turn”

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

he might be able to put together that sum over the

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

“I need you to head to Jadeborough

a lawyer entered a detention center with a briefcase.

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

to discuss something urgent with

briefly relayed Yerek’s message. When Nigel heard that Yerek wanted to sell

a say in the

reconsider, Mr. Gibson. Are your shares more important than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek

icy cold stool, reeling from the devastating

never be as reassuring

“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 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

selfishness took the lawyer by surprise.

right-hand man and if 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

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

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

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

lawyer turned