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.

other motives for committing such a

had 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

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

the kidnappers would not do anything rash before getting the ransom. Anya will be safe.”

money in the past, but. with the current predicament that the Gibson family is in, there

will be a way. Don’t

helping Anya can only count on you. Yerck. I have some jewelry.

money in Turn”

amounted to only at million, which was still a long way off from twenty million

he could resell the shares of Gibson Corporation, he might be able to put together that sum over the next few hours.

were transferred to Christina, only Nigel

Yerek’s mind. He dialed a number. “I need you to head to Jadeborough and do something for me at once.”

lawyer entered a detention center with a briefcase.

his

something urgent with

briefly relayed Yerek’s message. When Nigel heard that Yerek wanted to sell his

have a say in the company again if I

life? Mr. Yerek will take over Gibson Corporation one day. He will not cast

onto the icy cold stool, reeling from

what Yerek promises me, it will never be as reassuring as

company. Besides, he’s always been useless. There’s no point in holding on to those shares if he can’t manage the company. Why don’t you ask

took the

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

your brother agreed to sell the assets under 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

tactic of persuasion up his sleeve and in half

Nigel as he did so. “Mr. Yerek is