Love's Change of Heart

Chapter 212

Aidan used his businesslike tone and said, “There’s a poker game happening tonight. Come with me.”

Leanna was startled for a moment, but she nodded. “Alright.”

“So, we can get dinner now, right?”

Leanna laughed dryly and passed the folder back to him. “Do whatever you want, President Pearson.”

He leaned back into the seat and closed his eyes.

Less than two minutes later, Leanna’s phone started ringing.

It was a call from Elijah.

She cast a glance at the man beside her. She didn’t know if he was actually asleep or just faking it, but after a moment of hesitation, she decided to answer the call.

“Leanna, I heard about everything from Zoe. Do you need my help?” Elijah asked.

Her instinctive response was to say no. The word was on the tip of her tongue when she suddenly changed her mind. “Yes, please. Thank you.”

Beside her, Aidan slowly opened his eyes.

After hanging up, she turned around and looked straight into his deep, brooding eyes.

He looked away and stated plainly, “We’re here. Get off.”

Leanna wanted to stick to her resolve and skip dinner, but it was torture for someone who had skipped lunch to sit and watch someone else eat.

She took a deep breath before heading out of the restaurant to buy something for herself.

Aidan stared at her as she walked off. There was no expression on his face as he asked, “What goes on in that head of hers?”

Jonathan, who was standing beside him, didn’t know what to say.

Her intentions were obvious. She was keeping a distance between them.

No matter what Aidan did to create opportunities between them, chances were they weren’t going to amount to much.

Leanna’s thoughts were rather simple. Since she couldn’t avoid seeing that b*stard, she decided to just deal with the situation head-on.

Aidan stood up and followed her out the door.

She had just sat down at a table in front of the convenience store to dig into her to-go meal when the box was snatched out of her hands. Her cutlery disappeared as well.

She was perplexed and a little disgruntled. “Weren’t you having dinner, President Pearson?”

“The food was lousy.”

food at such an expensive restaurant be

eat it then?”

to roll her eyes, but she held back the urge

say anything further. Then, he took the cutlery and began eating

mad that she felt as if she was just one step

into the convenience store to get more food. When she came back out, she

the cutlery down. He pressed his tongue

the convenience store to buy a bottle of water when a

at the man

a reason to decline, Aidan said, “Consider it the payment for the meal. You can toss it if you don’t want to drink

parked beside the road right

looking down at the

had a point. He did owe me for

since the money is

in mind, she took the cup

…

arrived at

never dreamed that she would be here with Aidan

In the past, whenever she came here, she would relive the humiliation and despair that had gripped her

time, she felt

Jethro’s death was the catalyst for her to

out of her thoughts, Leanna noticed that Aidan was staring coolly at a nearby

stop herself from asking, “Aren’t you heading in, President

thinking about something,”

“What⁠—”

saying anything as soon as she uttered the first word, but it was too late to take

“Once upon a time, in that spot over there, someone held my hand and

Of course.

knew this

it was never a good idea to keep the conversation going with

“I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a good man, but sometimes, I like to do a good

his conscience would eat

end, that person bit the helping

she wanted to roll her

heard of the fable

Enough is enough.

“President Pearson, can you just… shut

and commented off-handedly, “I’m talking about

and Jonathan were

with a downright remarkable work ethic, Jonathan begrudgingly took a step forward and said, “President Pearson’s right, Miss McKinney. At the time, I happened to be here, and President Pearson showed up

him with a straight face as she

was here, well, it’s a long story. It