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."

the food at such an

didn't you eat it then?" he

she held back the urge

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

she felt as if she was just one step away

and went back into the convenience store to get more food. When she came back out, she chose to sit down at a different

down. He pressed his tongue

convenience store to buy a bottle of water when a cup of warm water set down in

looked up at the man standing

decline, Aidan said, "Consider it the payment for the meal. You can toss it if you

to the Rolls-Royce parked beside the road right after

looking down at the cup of warm

He did owe

a fuss since the money is

took the cup and

arrived at

that she would be here with

was odd. In the past, whenever she came here, she would relive the humiliation

time, she felt nothing at

death was the catalyst for her to

staring coolly at a nearby area. She didn't know what he was thinking

finally couldn't stop herself from

just thinking about something," he stated

"What⁠—"

anything as soon as she uttered the first word, but it was too late to

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

Of course.

knew this

idea to keep

the first to admit that I'm not a good man, but sometimes, I like to do a good deed

his conscience would eat

that person bit the

to

ever heard of the fable

Enough is enough.

Pearson, can

commented off-handedly, "I'm talking about Jonathan. Why are you

Leanna and Jonathan were

Jonathan begrudgingly took a step forward and said, "President Pearson's right, Miss

with a straight face as she waited to see what he came

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