Chapter 695 No Real Feelings

The moment Leanna got into bed, Aidan pulled her into his embrace. She looked at him. "What is it?"

"I did tell you that you can buy any jewelry you want, didn't I?"

"W…" Oh, I see. A moment of silence later, she said, "So you know."

Aidan grunted. "There's going to be an auction at the charity dinner for the celebration, and the ring's on the list."

Leanna froze. "But I thought the ring was in Joseph's hands."

"He's trying to strike a deal with Pearson Group."

Leanna frowned. "He did ask me to put in a good word with you, but I refused. I can't believe he still got what he wanted."

"He came to you because he knew I wouldn't agree to work with him."

"But Justin agreed."

They stayed silent after that. Joseph's goal was obvious. He didn't come to Highside for business. His goal was Aidan, or to be precise, Pearson Group, and Aidan's departure from the company gave him the chance he needed. One's a Woodley, and the other is a victim of that fiasco. Leanna said, "Should you tell Justin about Joseph's…"

his arm around Leanna. "He knows what he's doing." A momentary pause later, he said, "I'll tell Jonathan to at least leak the Woodley scandal to Justin during his investigations. He can decide what to do

no idea what to say to that. A moment later, Aidan said, "We

happened, they had to make the trip. The

she came back, Leanna told the people in the studio not to bring up anything about Zoe's hospitalization and the baby. Work went on like usual, and

felt better the moment she went to work, and her bad mood was turned around. Still, there was

time, the day

start at seven-thirty, but the hotel's entrance was already filled with tons of reporters at six. They were trying their best to take tons of photos as the celebration this time was the grandest of them all. Aside from the main company's employees, everyone from the subsidiaries was invited as well. The guests here were either bigwigs of Highside's business and political world or celebrities attached to

the other year-end galas could gather people like this. Thanks to that, the reporters had been staking out the hotel a day before so they could get

a side door. The moment they walked into the lobby, they

was as grand as this.

switched out. Of course, he wants everyone

but I heard that Justin and Aidan used

I heard Aidan was the one behind Sienna's death. Do you really think they can still

can live while the other

a facade of serenity. Now that he's taken over, he wants everyone to know he's the boss. He doesn't care about his brother. Family means nothing in the world of aristocrats while power means

else take over. He beat the

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