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.”

can the food at such

you eat it then?” he

to roll her eyes, but she held back

didn’t say anything further. Then, he took the cutlery and began eating the

mad that she felt as if she was just one step away

lips and went back into the convenience store to get more food. When she came back

set the cutlery down. He pressed his tongue against his inner

convenience store to buy a bottle of

up at the man

“Consider it the payment for the meal. You

strode off to the Rolls-Royce parked beside the road right after saying

eyed him before looking down at the cup of warm

b*stard had a point. He did owe me

needn’t make a fuss since the money is from

in mind, she took the cup and

…

arrived at Patheon

that she would be here

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

time, she felt

catalyst for her to let go of her

noticed that Aidan was staring coolly at a nearby area. She didn’t know what he was thinking about as she couldn’t read his

passed when she finally couldn’t stop

about something,”

“What⁠—”

regretted ever saying anything as soon as she uttered the first word, but it

in that spot over there, someone held my

Of course.

this was

good idea to keep the conversation

a good man, but sometimes, I like to do a good deed

conscience would

that person bit the

wanted to roll

heard of the fable about the farmer

Enough is enough.

Pearson,

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

Leanna and Jonathan were

assistant 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,

stared at him with a straight face as she waited to see

I was here, well, it’s a long