Chapter 213
In the private room.
The moment Aidan stepped into the room, the temperature seemed to drop several degrees lower.
The air was tense and rather uncomfortable.
One of the men seated around the poker table muttered, “What’s with President Pearson?”
Oscar glanced at the man knocking back glasses of alcohol on the couch. “My guess is he got bitten.”
What?
“That wild, huh? I didn’t hear about President Pearson getting close to any woman recently, though,” one of the other men commented.
Oscar smiled knowingly without saying anything.
Just then, the door opened again, and the perpetrator who did the biting came in.
He looked toward the door and was taken aback when he saw Leanna walk in. He didn’t think that Aidan would’ve been able to bring her here.
Aren’t they at loggerheads right now?
After catching Oscar’s eye, Leanna nodded lightly in greeting.
Then, she walked over to Aidan and sat down beside him.
Oscar quirked his eyebrows and looked away.
“Who’s that? She’s quite pretty. Is she a new model or celebrity that President Pearson’s investing in?” someone asked.
Oscar shuffled the cards and answered off-handedly, “President Pearson’s ex-wife.”
Everyone was dumbstruck.
Didn’t Aidan hate his ex-wife? He finally managed to get a divorce, so why were they hanging out together again?
All this while, Aidan sat in his corner without talking.
Leanna sat there in silence as well.
accompany him to the poker game.
help but feel curious as to why Aidan joined them today. Was his appearance here really going to be useful
of it all,
gaze and looked at him. Half of his face was in the shadow. She couldn’t tell what he was thinking or feeling.
moment, but she quickly came to. “I’m not
darkness as he downed his glass with a visible
glass down, he walked
them got up. “Take my seat, President Pearson. I’m about
said, “That seat of his has rotten
any
wanted to
stick of dynamite
exploding as
around the poker table
right now. They had better
a few rounds, Aidan suffered
the cards and turned to Leanna. “Come
and after hesitating for a moment, she said,
don’t have any money either,” she added solemnly after a slight
was not going to lose her
say anything to
fine. President Pearson likes doing charity. Just recently, he started tree-planting projects all over the city under the
the last syllable when he felt an icy pair of
down in Aidan’s old spot. “I really
at everything? I’m surprised
to warn him to stop before going too
gets out of control, he goes around baring his
of it, it’d
would’ve shot back at him right away, but this time, she kept reminding herself that she was here to resolve
however, the b*stard
she said
addict shown any interest
a mindless robot that carried out Aidan’s instructions to the
the chair, the tides seemed to
won several rounds in a row, and the atmosphere around
“Use that card.”
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