Love's Change of Heart

Chapter 294

After Leanna was done sorting the work at hand in the afternoon, she grabbed her belongings and headed out of her office. "Zoe, I'm going out for a bit. I probably won't be coming back but head straight home instead."

Zoe nodded in acknowledgment but still asked, "Where are you heading?"

"There's finally a lead for the pocket watch I'm looking into. I have a rendezvous with the person in charge of the factory."

"Is it legit?" Zoe asked.

"It should be. I asked a friend to help me look into it."

"Okay. I'll go with you. The studio isn't busy anyway, and I don't like the idea of you going alone. If something does happen, at least we have each other."

"Sure."

After leaving the studio to their staff, the young ladies headed to the rendezvous point, only to end up in an abandoned factory area. "Is this the place? This place looks deserted," Zoe doubted as she drove.

To that, Leanna checked the address again. "This should be it… We should arrive after making a right turn at that junction."

With that, Zoe turned the car in that direction and found a hoary old man standing in front of a locked factory after driving a few more yards ahead.

"This is it," Leanna announced.

"Hi, are you Mr. Muston?" she asked after getting out of the car.

The elder nodded with a smile. "You must be Miss McKinney."

"I am," Leanna answered, then introduced Zoe. "This is my friend. She's here to keep me company."

After a quick exchange of pleasantries, the elder went to the gates and pulled a large set of keys out with trembling hands from his pocket. He took a long while before he was able to unlock the gates.

"You sure he can provide you with useful leads?

keeping a smile on her face, Leanna nudged Zoe with her elbow and muttered,

in his hands. If he tries them one by one, we'll probably still

elder's voice rang out. "Alright,

the elder, then

whiff of stale air and dust came at them, and Leanna couldn't help coughing while fanning the dust in front of

and felt for the light switch while revealing, "It's been ages since anyone was here. You girls can consider yourselves lucky. This entire area will be demolished in two weeks, and these documents will be sent for disposal. By then, it'll be nearly impossible for

massive warehouse and the documents placed on the rows of shelves. "Are

might not believe me, but even though this pocket watch factory has gone down in its later years, we used to be one of the top manufacturers a couple of decades ago. We used to have retail stores

look through them one by one, it'll

it. Even if it was sold in all of our retail stores, the information would still be sent to the headquarters, so you'll surely be able to find the purchase information of the watch if

them in response. Looks like we'll still have a

keys and said, "You guys can come over whenever you want if you don't manage to find what you're looking for today. Just remember to lock the gates when you

thanked the elder as she took the keys from him. "I'll return them to you once I find what I'm looking

be sure to lock the gates when you leave. Someone will come and clear these documents when they're demolishing this

really appreciate your help." Leanna

be able to see this pocket watch model again after two

elder away, Zoe had already started flipping through the

watch model's purchase information would be sent to the headquarters, they

from purchase records, there were records of factory employees, various data and

ladies flipped through document after document, and before

then, the sound of a phone vibrating broke

of her pocket only to find Aidan calling. With that,

are you?" he

tell him her exact