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

gotten on in years, and Anya 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 delivered, causing the entire Gibson family to descend

was in no shape to make sense of Yerek’s concerns, he

the kidnappers would not do

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.

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

money in Turn”

calculated the liquid cash he had on hand which amounted to

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

the shares he was supposed to inherit were transferred to Christina, only Nigel still had some on

fully formed, in Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head

a detention center with

as though seeing his

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

that Yerek wanted to sell his shares in exchange for ransom, he

I will never have a say in the company again if

reconsider, Mr. Gibson. Are your shares more important than your daughter’s life? Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day.

the icy cold stool, reeling from the

what Yerek promises me, it will never be as reassuring as the power remaining in my

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

selfishness took the lawyer by surprise.

been somebody else who had assigned him the case, he would have flung the documents at

not enough time. There’s currently a buyer willing to pay handsomely for Gibson

so he employed every tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in half an hour, managed to convince Nigel

put 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 patient