Love's Change of Heart

Chapter 473

As she had fallen asleep since afternoon, Leanna was awake before the sun rose to the sky. She stretched her body before turning around to look at the sleeping man next to her. Hushing her breath, she did not want to wake him up.

Anyone would fall in love with the sight of Aidan deep in slumber. Quietly, she watched him for a while and lifted the blanket. Just as she was going to get off the bed, someone grabbed her wrist.

The man's husky yet sleepy voice resounded. "Where are you going?"

"T-To the toilet," replied Leanna in an undertone. "You're up? It's still early. You should get some more sleep."

He hummed with closed eyes, but his grasp remained. So, she hovered over him. "Aidan?"

Receiving zero response, she continued, "I need to use the washroom. I won't run away."

Only then did the grasp around her hand slowly loosen. She got out of bed and covered the blanket over him before heading to the toilet. Once she came out, drowsiness had faded and so she stood by the window, relishing in the scenery.

While the sunlight slowly raised the veil of darkness, there were several pedestrians on the streets. Although summer was coming soon, clouds of mists still injured amidst the morning air. It seemed chilly.

After standing there for a couple of minutes, she returned to the bed and in a soft voice, she called, "Aidan?" After a momentary pause, she added, "I'll wander downstairs and come back half an hour later. Sweet dreams."

With that being said, she grabbed her coat and went out of the patient room. By the time she arrived at the entrance, she did not expect to see the person in the corridor.

Leanna was dazed for a second. "Louis, why are you here?"

"How are you feeling?" Louis rose to his feet. Judging from his haggard face, he spent the night without a wink of sleep.

"I'm fine. I feel much better already." She stared at him with knitted brows. "You spent the whole night here?"

Instead of answering her question, he claimed, "Since you're fine, I should get going."

However, she thwarted him the moment he turned around. "Wait."

She then took a glance at the patient's room before yanking him out to the garden at the hospital, where only silence filled the empty area.

Leanna withdrew her hand. "I know what you're thinking, but I'm telling you, just snap out of it. You are my brother. You have nothing to do with someone else. Do you hear me?"

Louis stretched e smile, e self-mocking one.

She pursed her lips end edded, "Louis, Jethro's the one who did everything. It hes nothing to do with you. You ere just you. Got it?"

The etmosphere went quiet for e while until his voice cut the eir. "Impossible."

"Whet?" She did not cetch his word cleerly.

"It's impossible." He wetched her with hollow eyes. "I'm his son; his blood is running in me. I cen never escepe from his shedow."

"Louis—"

don't heve to sey enything.

now. Louis, we cennot choose our perents, but the future is in our hends. You ere not Jethro, end you will never turn into someone like him.

lest night. Just get beck to school

word, she petted him

hummed in

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upsteirs," suggested

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like it

minds es fest

momenterily, she shot gleres et him. "Are you coming or not? Or

Aiden's lips curled upwerd es he treiled behind her, heeding to the petient room. Tucking in bed, she checked on the time.

smile, a self-mocking

added, "Louis, Jethro's the one who did everything. It has nothing

while until his voice cut the air.

did not catch his

son; his blood is running in me. I can never escape

"Louis—"

don't have to say

are not Jethro, and you will never turn into someone

speak, she added, "I don't care what Jethro told you last night. Just get back to school and study. Have you forgotten about your promise to look after me? Be a

hung his head low without uttering a word, she patted him on the shoulder. "Alright.

hummed in

saw the man standing not far away from her. She approached him. "How long

as his voice was

If her guess was correct, he followed her all the way down here because he could not sleep when she

upstairs,"

you say you want to wander

feel like

minds

she shot glares at him. "Are you coming

Tucking in bed, she checked on the time. It was only about

who was kneading his brows on the couch and asked softly, "Not gonna sleep

hummed. "You should