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.
she couldn't help but feel curious as to why Aidan joined them today. Was his appearance here really going to be useful in aiding the company projects
she began to sense the strangeness of it all,
looked at him. Half of his face was in the shadow. She couldn't tell
startled for a moment, but she quickly came
to chuckle in the darkness as he downed his glass
down, he walked over to the poker
one of them got up. "Take my seat, President Pearson. I'm about to head off
his has rotten luck. He's been losing all night.
be any worse than
to roll his
stick of
he exploding as
poker table
mood right
a few rounds, Aidan
the cards and turned to Leanna.
to the table, and after hesitating for a moment, she said, "I don't know how to
don't have any money either," she
was not going to lose her
say anything to
Pearson likes doing charity. Just recently, he started tree-planting projects all over the
faltered right before getting to the last syllable when he felt an icy pair of eyes sweeping
down in Aidan's old spot. "I really
I'm surprised there's something you don't know," Aidan
warn him to stop before
he goes around baring his teeth at
snaps out of it, it'd be
away, but this time, she kept reminding herself that she was here to resolve an issue, and not
the b*stard
she said in
Leanna had never shown any interest in poker games. She didn't know what
the whole game, she was like a mindless robot that carried out Aidan's instructions to the
in the chair, the tides seemed to turn in
rounds in a row, and the atmosphere around
"Use that card."
at the right card, or if it was Leanna who misunderstood him, but when she took out the card that
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