Chapter 213

In the private room.

The moment Aidan stepped into the room, the temperature seemed to drop several degrees lower.

The air was tense and rather uncomfortable.

One of the men seated around the poker table muttered, "What's with President Pearson?"

Oscar glanced at the man knocking back glasses of alcohol on the couch. "My guess is he got bitten."

What?

"That wild, huh? I didn't hear about President Pearson getting close to any woman recently, though," one of the other men commented.

Oscar smiled knowingly without saying anything.

Just then, the door opened again, and the perpetrator who did the biting came in.

He looked toward the door and was taken aback when he saw Leanna walk in. He didn't think that Aidan would've been able to bring her here.

Aren't they at loggerheads right now?

After catching Oscar's eye, Leanna nodded lightly in greeting.

Then, she walked over to Aidan and sat down beside him.

Oscar quirked his eyebrows and looked away.

"Who's that? She's quite pretty. Is she a new model or celebrity that President Pearson's investing in?" someone asked.

Oscar shuffled the cards and answered off-handedly, "President Pearson's ex-wife."

Everyone was dumbstruck.

Didn't Aidan hate his ex-wife? He finally managed to get a divorce, so why were they hanging out together again?

All this while, Aidan sat in his corner without talking.

Leanna sat there in silence as well.

In any case, he only said that she needed to accompany him to the poker game. He didn't say she had to do anything.

curious as to why Aidan joined them today. Was his appearance here really

of it all, Aidan's voice called out to her.

of his face was in the shadow. She couldn't tell what

was startled for a moment, but she quickly came to.

chuckle in the darkness as

he

one of them got up. "Take my seat, President Pearson.

seat of his has rotten luck. He's been losing all night.

any worse than

wanted to roll

ingest a stick of dynamite or

as soon as

the poker table came to

mood right

Oscar's words, after a few rounds, Aidan suffered heavy

flicked the cards and turned to Leanna. "Come

and after hesitating for a moment,

she added solemnly after a slight

was not going to lose her

couldn't say anything

"It's fine. President Pearson likes doing charity. Just recently, he started tree-planting projects all over the city under the guise

faltered right before getting to the last syllable when he felt

spot. "I really

to be great at everything? I'm surprised there's something you don't know,"

throat to warn him to stop

gets out of control, he goes around baring his teeth at everyone in

finally snaps out of it, it'd

but this time, she kept reminding herself

she could respond, however, the b*stard finally said something decent.

said in

around a gambling addict like Jethro that Leanna had never shown any interest in poker games. She didn't know what was fun about

was like a mindless robot that carried out Aidan's instructions

the chair, the tides seemed to turn

in a row, and the atmosphere around the

"Use that card."

whether it was Aidan who failed to point at the right card, or if it was Leanna who misunderstood him, but when she took out the card that she thought Aidan meant and attempted to place it down on

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