Love's Change of Heart

Chapter 458

Chapter 458

After they reached downstairs, Leanna said, "I'll go by myself from here. My car's parked by the roadside."

Elijah smiled. "Alright. I'll sound Daniel out about Zoe, but the words you said to provoke him just now will probably work."

Leanna's lips curled into a smile. "Hopefully. Still, I hope Zoe will find someone nice to her as long as she lives."

Elijah replied, "She will."

"Well, then, I gotta go. Bye."

"Goodbye."

Elijah kept watching her from behind until she was out of his sight. After that, he withdrew his gaze, turned around, and went upstairs.

Meanwhile, Leanna drove back to Jethro's former old house after leaving Constellation Tech. Opening the door with the key, she said softly toward the balcony, where the curtains were swaying in the wind, "It's me."

It wasn't until a few seconds later that Ron climbed onto the balcony from the outside.

Leanna said, "Don't worry. Nobody would come here at the moment other than me, so you can stay here with peace of mind."

Ron replied, "Thank you."

Leanna took out the various medicines that she'd bought on her way here. "Your wound was still bleeding the last time I saw it. Just treat it properly. You don't have to thank me for this, though. To put it bluntly, we're just getting what we want from each other."

"Have you found Jethro?"

"I have," Leanna replied before pausing for a moment. Then, she said with a smile, "But I didn't get anything out of him."

asked, "Need my help

"No, it's not necessary. Let's leave it at that," she said while producing a card from her purse. "Here's the three million that I promised you earlier. Also, you've done a lot of stuff on my orders lately, and I've told Aidan about it. He's dealing with the Pearsons now. Their men will pull out very soon, by which time you'll be able to walk out

"Don't you hate me for what I did

"You probably have no idea how important to me the stuff

card on the table without saying

"I gotta go. Just make yourself comfortable here. I'll call you after the

of a hideous-looking wound in his stomach. He took out the medicines and the gauze she had bought and applied them to the wound. Then, having treated all the wounds

to gambling and had started borrowing from loan sharks many years ago. Not only that, but he'd even gone so far as to sell his own daughter. Still, he never mortgaged this old house. Why is that so? This place can't sell for a lot of money, but it won't be a problem to sell it for a

nothing else to do while staying here, anyway, thought Ron. With that, he began to search every corner of this house

…

the old house, Leanna noticed that it was getting late, so she phoned Zoe and told the latter that she wasn't going back to the studio. The

she ran into

saw her. When she saw the latter, her pupils dilated at once; it took a

as she greeted her.

her tongue and choked it back. Instead, she made an excuse, saying, "No, I don't. I'm just hanging around here with my friends today. I noticed that the fish here are quite fresh, so I thought it'd be

eyes toward the fish counter. "They're fresh,

"I've got something else to do, so

"Hold on a minute."

freeze the very instant Leanna stopped her. Her neck stiffened,

bag nearby to

shopping bag from her while forcing a weak smile. "Thank you, Miss McKinney.

"See you around."

in her hand, Celia dashed to the payment counter, paid the bill, and left without buying

the sight of this, Keaton, who was following Celia at a short distance, let out a quiet sigh of relief and left as well. Luckily, President Pearson has instructed before that Madam Fletcher and Celia are not to go out at the same time during this period. To think they ran into each other

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