Chapter 137 The Competition
Christina bit her lower lip for a while as she stepped into the room. “I went to visit Granny.”
Nathaniel hummed in response.
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As Christina came to a stop by the chair, she asked, “Why didn’t you call me if you were waiting for me for dinner?”
She would have come home earlier if she had known that Nathaniel was waiting for her.
Nathaniel put down the file in his hand and reached out to pull her into his arms.
Lowering his head, he whispered to Christina, expressing understanding and reassurance, “It’s rare for you to have time to visit your granny. It’s okay.”
Hearing that made a wave of guilt swell in Christina’s chest. “Should I get the kitchen staff to heat up the food for you?”
At this rate, his dinner was his supper.
Nathaniel hummed in response again!
After a peck on his cheek, Christina straightened up and left.
Once the food was hot again, Nathaniel came downstairs. Christina accompanied him for the meal before returning to her room to rest.
Late into the night, Nathaniel remained immersed in his work within the study room. Occasionally, the silence would be interrupted by the sound of coughing.
When Sebastian went into the room to pass him more documents, he worriedly asked, “Mr. Hadley, why don’t you take a break?”
Nathaniel had been working non-stop for seventy-two hours. Even a machine would need a break every once in a while.
But Sebastian could not tell if Nathaniel had registered his words, for what Nathaniel said to him in response was, “I’ll be signing a contract with a Ferropenian company tomorrow. Show me the contract so that I can go over the details again.”
The collaboration project the next day was worth a billion and three hundred million; it was definitely a project Nathaniel had to be meticulous about.
Sebastian hummed in agreement before digging out a thick folder from the stack, but he hesitated. when he was about to pass it to Nathaniel.
By the time Nathaniel went through the folder, it would be late into the night.
him a glare and took the
could help Nathaniel with,
the sun rose, Christina woke from
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it turned out, she had kicked her blanket off the bed in her sleep. When she
so late at night,
mind, Christina got out of bed, put on a jacket, and went out. Unsurprisingly, the lights in
downstairs to get a cup
milk in front of Nathaniel, she said. “Have a
realize that
his lips. When he took a sip of the milk, he felt his body
the drink before putting down
awake? You should go back to sleep,” Nathaniel said, glancing at the time and
“I don’t want to go back to the room. I’m
burrowed her head into his arms.
thick white jacket, and in his arms, she
stay there at her insistence. She was petite, and it really felt as if he
work and attempted to wrap up his work quicker so that he could bring her back
them from above and cast the
again, she was already on the bid in the
meant that he had been sleeping as well. After a stretch, she got
downstairs, the butler told her that Nathaniel had gone out. It seemed like he had something important to attend
her breakfast, she went back to
into the company, she overheard her coworkers discussing the contents
chosen as the Outstanding Youth of the Year again. He’s been doing charitable activities every year, and he’s
I heard that he’s been organizing a
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which elderly lady’s got to be fortunate enough to be his dance partner”
paused in her traks
a look at
magazine as the others red a
never been one for gossip, big strangely, she seemed interested
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