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

didn’t you eat it then?” he

to roll her eyes, but she

cutlery and began eating the food he had

that she felt as if she was just one step away from dying of a

back into the convenience store to get more food. When

down. He pressed his tongue against his

inside the convenience store to buy a bottle of water

up at the man standing beside

could come up with a reason to decline, Aidan said, “Consider it the payment for the meal. You can toss it if

parked beside the road

him before looking down at the cup of warm water on

point. He did

since the money

in mind, she took the cup

…

at

she would

she came here, she would relive the humiliation and

she felt nothing at

Jethro’s death was the catalyst for her to let go

of her thoughts, Leanna noticed that Aidan was staring coolly at a nearby area. She didn’t know what he was thinking about as she couldn’t

stop herself from asking, “Aren’t

was just thinking about something,”

“What⁠—”

uttered the first word, but it

in that spot over

Of course.

this

never a good idea to

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

his conscience would eat

that person bit

she wanted to

of the fable about

Enough is enough.

Pearson, can

glanced at her and commented off-handedly, “I’m talking about Jonathan. Why are

and Jonathan were

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

a straight face as she waited to see what he came up with this

I was here, well, it’s