Let Me Stay The Night

When they had disembarked from the plane and walked out of the terminal, they spotted Jasper standing beside a black car, waiting for them.

Jasper immediately went up to them with all the enthusiasm in the world. He wanted to take Christina’s luggage from Lyle’s hand, only to stop short at the sharp look in the latter’s eyes.

Christina broke the tense atmosphere. “Why are you here?”

“Mr. Gibson had me come over to pick you up, Ms. Steele. He has already arranged the accommodations for you. There’s a storm at the cemetery, and that makes it difficult to relocate the grave. For that reason, he postponed the ceremony for tomorrow morning.”

Christina had no objections to that since her schedule was rather rushed. With a day to rest, she would have enough energy and strength to deal with all the tricky problems the next day.

“Thank you for coming all the way over. I’ve already booked a hotel, and it wouldn’t be wise for me and my father to have too much contact before tomorrow, Christina replied with a smile.

Jasper instantly understood her meaning. “Okay, I’ll convey your message to Mr. Gibson. Please excuse me, Ms. Steele.”

“Sure.” Christina watched as the man drove away.

Thereafter, she climbed into another black car parked by the side of the road. “Does the Gibson family know of my visit to Hallsbay?”

Considering the fact that she had decided to give the Gibsons a surprise, it went without saying that her whereabouts could not be allowed to leak out beforehand.

morning and made it back to Hallsbay an hour ago. Anya is preoccupied with matters in the entertainment industry, while Yerek is busy finding investment for

countenance, and she asked, “Anya wants to enter the entertainment

using the twenty million in ransom she got from the Gibson family through trickery to pave the way for Emilia,” Sebastian clarified.

Tell me the chain of events in detail.”

time Sebastian finished narrating the entire

Anya’s kidnapping turned out

managed to gather that twenty million in ransom by emptying her coffers and calling in all the favors owed her. Yet Anya is using the money on someone else. Worse still,

ordered, “Furtively gather evidence of the deal between Anya and Emili It might be

“Understood,” Sebastian noted.

guest room for her before he spun

The Only

had taken a shower, she sat at the dining table and ate the nutritious meal specially provided by the

night, a storm raged in Hallsbay for the entire night. The

who had been waiting for her, in the living room. A long moment passed before her mind fully registered that she was not in Scenic Garden Manor

saw Timothy, but he had visibly lost weight. However, his depressed state from the past was nowhere to be seen. That day, he appeared animated, and his

Christina greeted softly, “Good morning,