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.
him to the poker
couldn’t help but feel curious as to why Aidan joined them today. Was his appearance here really going to be useful
to sense the strangeness of it all, Aidan’s voice
face was in the shadow. She couldn’t tell what he was
was startled for a moment, but she quickly came to. “I’m not drinking
the darkness as
glass down, he walked over
“Take my seat, President Pearson. I’m
Oscar said, “That seat of his has rotten luck. He’s been losing all night.
be any worse
to roll his
ingest a stick of
as soon
then, everyone around the poker table came to a mutual
mood right now. They had better not cross
a few rounds, Aidan
cards and turned to Leanna. “Come
over to the table, and after hesitating for a moment, she said, “I don’t know
don’t have any money either,” she added solemnly
her hard-earned
Aidan couldn’t say
doing charity. Just recently, he started tree-planting projects
to the last syllable when he felt an icy pair of eyes sweeping
old spot. “I really don’t know how to
at everything? I’m surprised there’s something you don’t know,”
him to stop before going too
gets out of control, he goes around baring his teeth at
snaps out of it, it’d
but this time, she kept reminding herself that she was
she could respond, however, the b*stard finally
said in
shown any interest in poker games. She didn’t
the whole game, she was like a mindless robot that carried out Aidan’s instructions to the letter,
down in the chair, the tides seemed to turn
in a row, and the atmosphere around the
“Use that card.”
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