Love's Change of Heart

Chapter 227

Aidan answered slowly and calmly, “No. I didn’t do this.”

Leanna chortled. She didn’t believe him at all. She approached the boulders and shone her flashlight around to look for a way out.

At the same time, Aidan said, “We’re on a mountain path. It’s normal that boulders roll around and block the way. Someone will clean them up in the morning.”

She ignored him. Leanna took her heels off and tried to climb over the boulders.

As Aidan watched her climb, he poked his teeth with his tongue and pinched his nose before going ahead.

There were a lot of stones around the boulder. Not only did Leanna fail to climb across, but her feet were also injured as well. She was going for another attempt, but someone suddenly picked her up and took her down from the boulders.

“I have no idea what you think sometimes.”

She snarkily retorted, “And I have no idea how you can do something like this without feeling any shame.”

Aidan put her down on the ground. “I didn’t do this.”

“Your words mean nothing to me.”

He put a hand on his shoulders and stared down at her. “Suit yourself.” He licked his lips. A few moments later, Aidan added, “There’s no way out tonight, but there’s a place to stay on the mountain. Wanna come?”

Without hesitation, she answered, “No.”

sunrise, then. I’ll be going now.” He turned around and walked

her phone out to call someone, but there was no signal in the mountains. She tried calling someone a few times near the boulders but to no avail. In the end, she had no strength left, and her phone was nearly dead.

stopped howling eventually. An eerie silence set in, and

in her heart. He loves me? Yeah, right. He leaves me behind when I need him the most. His

felt. The darkness around her amplified the fear she felt. Waves of

die out here, she heard the sounds of footsteps coming closer. Leanna looked up and

on one knee. The weak light from his cellphone’s flashlight shone on her

Eventually, the sobs turned into uncontrollable

I shouldn’t have left you behind. I didn’t

in his voice, and it made her angrier. She picked

you did call

“I didn’t!”

“I heard it.”

said I didn’t call

his embrace and whispered, “But

“I was cursing

chortle escaped Aidan’s lips as he held her up.

up the mountain, and she refused, “I’m not huge

saw through her. “There’s a landline in the mansion, and it’s connected to the hotel. Do you want to

still functioning?” He might tell me the landline’s broken after

you, I

believe him, and he didn’t bother explaining. They went on in silence, and a moment later, Leanna’s phone died. They were

sang beside her ear, and she eased up eventually, but it was then she noticed something touching her lips for a brief moment. A long silence later, she asked, “What did