Love's Change of Heart

Chapter 212

Chapter 212

Aidan used his businesslike tone and said, "There's a poker game happening tonight. Come with me."

Leanna was startled for a moment, but she nodded. "Alright."

"So, we can get dinner now, right?"

Leanna laughed dryly and passed the folder back to him. "Do whatever you want, President Pearson."

He leaned back into the seat and closed his eyes.

Less than two minutes later, Leanna's phone started ringing.

It was a call from Elijah.

She cast a glance at the man beside her. She didn't know if he was actually asleep or just faking it, but after a moment of hesitation, she decided to answer the call.

"Leanna, I heard about everything from Zoe. Do you need my help?" Elijah asked.

Her instinctive response was to say no. The word was on the tip of her tongue when she suddenly changed her mind. "Yes, please. Thank you."

Beside her, Aidan slowly opened his eyes.

After hanging up, she turned around and looked straight into his deep, brooding eyes.

He looked away and stated plainly, "We're here. Get off."

Leanna wanted to stick to her resolve and skip dinner, but it was torture for someone who had skipped lunch to sit and watch someone else eat.

She took a deep breath before heading out of the restaurant to buy something for herself.

Aidan stared at her as she walked off. There was no expression on his face as he asked, "What goes on in that head of hers?"

Jonathan, who was standing beside him, didn't know what to say.

Her intentions were obvious. She was keeping a distance between them.

No matter what Aidan did to create opportunities between them, chances were they weren't going to amount to much.

Leanna's thoughts were rather simple. Since she couldn't avoid seeing that b*stard, she decided to just deal with the situation head-on.

Aidan stood up and followed her out the door.

She had just sat down at a table in front of the convenience store to dig into her to-go meal when the box was snatched out of her hands. Her cutlery disappeared as well.

She was perplexed and a little disgruntled. "Weren't you having dinner, President Pearson?"

"The food was lousy."

food at such an

didn't you eat it then?" he

to roll her eyes, but she held back

too, didn't say anything further. Then, he took the cutlery and began eating

she was just one

more food. When she came back out, she chose

He pressed his tongue against

inside the convenience

the man standing beside

a reason to decline, Aidan said, "Consider it the payment for the meal. You can toss it if you don't want to drink

strode off to the Rolls-Royce parked beside

eyed him before looking down at the cup of

b*stard had a point. He did owe me

since

mind, she took

…

arrived at

dreamed that she would be

past, whenever she came here, she would relive the humiliation and despair that had gripped her

she felt nothing

death was the catalyst for her to

her thoughts, Leanna noticed that Aidan was staring coolly at a nearby area. She didn't know what he was thinking about as she

stop herself from asking, "Aren't you

was just thinking about

"What⁠—"

saying anything as soon as she uttered the first word, but it

time, in that spot over there, someone held my hand

Of course.

this

was never a good idea

a good man, but sometimes,

conscience would eat him

in the end, that person bit the

she wanted to roll her

ever heard of the fable about the

Enough is enough.

"President Pearson, can you

"I'm talking about

Leanna and Jonathan

downright remarkable work ethic, Jonathan begrudgingly took a step forward and said, "President Pearson's right, Miss McKinney. At the time, I happened to

with a straight face as she waited to

well, it's a long story. It

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