Let Me Stay The Night

As soon as those words fell, a terrified Azure tugged on Barnaby’s sleeve with a pleading look in her “Don’t agree to it,” she begged.

Enraged, Barnaby shook her off and replied haughtily, “Mrs. Hadley, we’ll do it your way then.”

“No!” Azure blurted as the crowd’s eyes fell on her. “Having your children apologize to me isn’t going to completely undo all the bad reputation I’m getting. Don’t you think you’re being very unfair by making such a request?”

At that instant, Barnaby wished he could shove something into Azure’s mouth to shut her up. “Hmph! Why would we fear being incriminated if we’ve done nothing wrong? There’s no point in Azure meddling with something so trivial. I believe the Hadleys still have some credibility.”

Azure had a pained expression on her face as she heard that. Barnaby had taken matters into his own hands out of fear that she would cause more trouble.

“The investigation will take some time. I have other matters to deal with, so I’ll be taking my leave now. Please have someone update me when the results are out, Mrs. Hadley,” the elderly man requested. “She’ll come with me since there hasn’t been any solid evidence yet.”

He was already respecting Christina and the Hadley family enough.

“If you’re taking her with you, I hope you’ll at least keep to your word,” Nathaniel remarked.

Barnaby scoffed. “Worry not, Mr. Hadley. You’ll get everything as promised.”

Then, he left with Azure.

Nathaniel shot Sebastian a glance, and the latter used a handkerchief to soak up the spilled wine, placed the cloth into a zip–lock bag, and instructed someone to have it examined.

With that, the unpleasant interlude came to an end.

“It’s all my fault,” Charlie lamented, blaming himself. “They wouldn’t have come looking for trouble with you if I hadn’t spent so long outside on my phone. Thank goodness Lucas and Camila saw through Azure’s schemes beforehand. I can’t imagine what would’ve happened otherwise.”

The thought of the possible consequences sent a chill down his spine.

I perfectly fine? You don’t have to blame yourself.” Timothy smiled. “Anyway, you two

of work to do, Christina and Nathaniel left, heading to Lucas‘ and

“Mommy, Daddy, has everything been taken care

you ever encounter something like this again, be sure to let an adult know right away. Don’t try to tackle it yourselves,

was Granddad. He would’ve been in danger if we

in agreement.

how to look after himself,” Christina advised despite feeling proud of them. “You’re still young, so you’ll have to make sure you’re safe before trying

children answered in

“Very good.” Christina beamed.

Nathaniel returned with a grave expression after picking

Christina had Rayne keep Lucas and Camila company so she could head into the office next

Nathaniel?” she then

that Sebastian had someone send to the lab. Someone stole it during the journey,” Nathaniel explained. “This may essentially seem like

than Nathaniel had expected. “All the footage from the studio’s probably been wiped out too,”

just as Christina had predicted, they had lost all the footage recorded on

Barnaby acted so openly and fearlessly showed how much he

went to get a technician right away, but even he couldn’t do anything to recover the

disregarding the Hadley family lightly anymore;

Then, he suddenly recalled something and asked, “When

before looking it up on his phone. “This coming

and Azure are trying to get Nigel a lighter sentence, then I’d say we attack them from there.

idea. The more they want something, the more

this according to the law,” Nathaniel instructed Sebastian. “Also, let Winston know that Nigel

Hadley.” The latter turned around