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 expensive restaurant

it then?" he retorted

she held back the

he took the cutlery and began eating the food he

was so mad that she felt as if she was just one step

store to get more food.

set the cutlery down. He pressed

the convenience store to buy a bottle of water

at the man standing beside

come up with a reason to decline, Aidan said, "Consider it the

off to the Rolls-Royce parked

eyed him before looking down at the cup of warm water on

He did owe me for

make a fuss since the money is

in mind, she took the

…

at Patheon

would be here

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

she felt nothing at

Jethro's death was the catalyst for her to let go

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

she finally couldn't stop

just thinking about something," he

"What⁠—"

anything as soon as she uttered the first

that spot over there, someone held my

Of course.

knew this was

good idea to

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

his conscience would

the end, that person bit the

she wanted to

heard of the fable about the

Enough is enough.

Pearson, can you just… shut

talking about Jonathan. Why are you getting so

and

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

a straight face as she waited to see what

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

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