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

it

her eyes, but she held back the urge

further. Then, he took the cutlery and began eating the food he had stolen from

was just one step away from

her lips and went back into the convenience store to get more food. When she came back out, she chose to

cutlery down. He pressed his tongue

convenience store to buy a bottle of water when a cup of warm

at the

a reason to decline, Aidan said, "Consider it the payment for the meal.

strode off to the Rolls-Royce parked

eyed him before looking down at the cup

He

fuss since the money is

that in mind, she took

…

at Patheon

dreamed that she would be here with

the past, whenever she came here, she would relive

she felt

was the catalyst for her to let go of her harrowing

thoughts, Leanna noticed that Aidan was staring coolly at a nearby area.

finally couldn't stop herself from asking, "Aren't

just thinking about

"What⁠—"

saying anything as soon as she uttered the

coolly, "Once upon a time, in that spot over there, someone held my hand

Of course.

knew this

idea to keep

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

conscience would eat

that person bit the helping

to roll her

heard of the fable about the farmer and

Enough is enough.

"President Pearson, can you

glanced at her and commented off-handedly, "I'm talking about Jonathan. Why are you getting so

and Jonathan were

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

at him with a straight face as she waited to see what he

for why I was here, well, it's a long

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