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.
at the people around Oscar. They were all young and wealthy playboys, and she couldn't help but feel curious as to why Aidan joined them today. Was his appearance here really going
strangeness of it all, Aidan's voice
the shadow. She couldn't tell what he was thinking or feeling.
a moment, but she quickly came to. "I'm
as he downed
the glass down, he walked over
of them got up. "Take my seat, President Pearson. I'm about to head
seat, Oscar said, "That seat of his has rotten luck. He's been
it be any
wanted to
he ingest a stick
he exploding as soon as he
poker
mood right now.
to Oscar's words, after a few rounds, Aidan suffered
the cards and turned to Leanna. "Come
table, and after hesitating for a moment, she
she added solemnly after a
lose her hard-earned money to
say anything to
doing charity. Just recently, he started
syllable when he felt an icy pair of eyes
spot. "I really don't
you supposed to be great at everything? I'm surprised there's something
cleared his throat to warn him to stop
of control, he goes
snaps out of it, it'd be too late
she kept reminding herself that
however, the b*stard finally said something decent.
she said in
was thanks to being around a gambling addict like Jethro that Leanna had never shown any interest in poker games. She didn't know
like a mindless robot that carried out Aidan's instructions to the letter, doing whatever he told her
the chair, the tides seemed to turn
rounds in a row, and the atmosphere around the
"Use that card."
who failed to point at the right card, or if it was Leanna who misunderstood him, but when she took out the
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