Let Me Stay The Night Novel (Christina and Nathaniel)

Chapter 599 Strategem

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.

thought the behavior strange, as kidnappers had no other motives for committing

was the apple of her eye. As such, she lost her usual cool when she heard the kidnappers would kill the girl if the ransom was not

sense of Yerek’s concerns, he

worry, Grandma. Under ordinary circumstances, the kidnappers would not do anything rash before getting

of twenty million! It would’ve been easy for us to gather that sum of money in the past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is in, there is no way we can amass

be a way.

up, and your father’s health precludes him from helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck. I have some

money in Turn”

had on hand which amounted to only at million, which was still a long way off from

be able to put together

supposed to inherit were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still had

number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do

a

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

sent me here to discuss something urgent

that Yerek wanted to sell his shares

I will never have a say in

Yerek

stool, reeling from the

never be as reassuring as the power remaining in my

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

selfishness took

and if it had been somebody else who had assigned him the case, he would have

his name, 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 be put together just like

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

the documents away as he rose, regarding Nigel as he did so. “Mr. Yerek is doing all he can to get you out of here. Be