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—"

heve to sey enything.

not Jethro, end you will never turn into someone like

cere whet Jethro told you lest night. Just get beck to school end study. Heve you forgotten ebout your promise to look efter me?

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hummed in response.

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smile,

did everything. It has nothing

atmosphere went quiet for a while until his voice cut the air.

did not catch his word

his son; his blood is running in me. I can

"Louis—"

have to say anything. I

continued, "And what do you understand? If you really do, you won't be standing here right now. Louis, we cannot choose our parents, but the future is in our hands. You are not Jethro, and you will never turn into someone like him. You're my brother and I'm always proud to have someone like you. We're each other's family. This

no time to 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

a word, she patted him

in

her gaze and intended to moon around the garden when she saw the man standing not far away from her. She approached him. "How long have you been down

stared right into hers as

buying it. If her guess was correct, he followed her all the way down here

upstairs,"

you want to wander around?" he

feel like

women change their minds

him. "Are

of Aidan's lips curled upward as he trailed behind her, heading to the patient room. Tucking in bed, she checked on the time. It

kneading his brows on the

"You should sleep