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 heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom was

sense of

ordinary circumstances, the kidnappers would not do

for us to gather that sum of money in the past, but.

will be a way. Don’t worry.”

precludes him from helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck. I have some

had on hand which amounted to

he could resell the shares of Gibson Corporation, he might be able to put together

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

He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something

entered a detention center with a

as though seeing his savior. “When can I leave

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

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

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

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

cold stool, reeling from the devastating

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

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 until he dies, anyway. The money will be ours

selfishness took the lawyer by

had assigned him the case, he would have flung

Mr. Gibson, there’s not enough time. There’s currently a buyer willing to

tell Nigel was beginning to hesitate, so he employed every tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed to convince Nigel to sign the agreement detailing the

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

lawyer turned