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."

can the food at such an expensive restaurant be

eat it then?" he

but she held back the urge and

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

mad that she felt as if she was just one step away from dying

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

pressed his

a little dry. She was about to head back inside the convenience store to buy

up at the man

up with a reason to decline, Aidan said, "Consider it the payment for the meal. You can toss it if

Rolls-Royce parked beside

eyed him before looking down at the cup of

He did owe me

needn't make a fuss since the money is

took the

…

arrived at

that she would be here

came here, she would relive the humiliation and despair

this time, she felt nothing

her

a nearby area. She didn't

stop herself from asking,

was just thinking about

"What⁠—"

uttered the first word, but it was too

"Once upon a time, in that spot

Of course.

knew this

it was never a good idea to keep the conversation

to admit that I'm not a good man, but sometimes,

because his conscience would eat him up

that

to roll her

heard of the fable about the farmer and

Enough is enough.

Pearson, can you

talking

and

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

she waited to see what he came up with this

here, well, it's a long story. It starts with my

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