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."

at such an

it then?" he

she held back the

cutlery and began eating

she felt as if she was just one step away

store to get more food. When she came back

He pressed his

to head back inside the convenience store to buy a bottle of water

up at the

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

parked beside the road right after

looking down at the cup of warm water on the

a point. He did owe me

a fuss since the money

took the cup

…

at Patheon

that she would be

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

time, she felt

for her to let

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

had passed when she finally couldn't stop herself from asking, "Aren't you heading in,

thinking about

"What⁠—"

the first word, but it was too

upon a time, in that spot over there, someone held my hand and begged for

Of course.

this was

was never a good idea to keep

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

because his conscience would eat him up

in the end, that person bit the helping

she wanted to

the fable about the farmer and the

Enough is enough.

"President Pearson, can you

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

and

and said, "President Pearson's right, Miss McKinney. At

face as she waited to see what he came

for why I was here, well, it's a long story. It starts with my

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