Chapter 458
After they reached downstairs, Leanna said, “I’ll go by myself from here. My car’s parked by the roadside.”
Elijah smiled. “Alright. I’ll sound Daniel out about Zoe, but the words you said to provoke him just now will probably work.”
Leanna’s lips curled into a smile. “Hopefully. Still, I hope Zoe will find someone nice to her as long as she lives.”
Elijah replied, “She will.”
“Well, then, I gotta go. Bye.”
“Goodbye.”
Elijah kept watching her from behind until she was out of his sight. After that, he withdrew his gaze, turned around, and went upstairs.
Meanwhile, Leanna drove back to Jethro’s former old house after leaving Constellation Tech. Opening the door with the key, she said softly toward the balcony, where the curtains were swaying in the wind, “It’s me.”
It wasn’t until a few seconds later that Ron climbed onto the balcony from the outside.
Leanna said, “Don’t worry. Nobody would come here at the moment other than me, so you can stay here with peace of mind.”
Ron replied, “Thank you.”
Leanna took out the various medicines that she’d bought on her way here. “Your wound was still bleeding the last time I saw it. Just treat it properly. You don’t have to thank me for this, though. To put it bluntly, we’re just getting what we want from each other.”
“Have you found Jethro?”
said with a smile, “But I didn’t get
my help with
it’s not necessary. Let’s leave it at that,” she said while producing a card from her purse. “Here’s the three million that I promised you earlier. Also, you’ve done a lot of stuff on my orders lately, and I’ve told Aidan about
hate me for
you before, what happened between us is already dead and buried. Now we’re just tying up some loose ends.” Leanna let out a heavy breath. “You probably have no idea how important to me the stuff that you helped me
on the table without saying another
said, “I gotta go. Just make yourself comfortable here.
lifted his shirt; blood was seeping out of a hideous-looking wound in his stomach. He took out the medicines and the gauze she had bought and applied them to the wound. Then,
so far as to sell his own daughter. Still, he never mortgaged this old house. Why is that so? This place can’t sell for a lot of money, but it won’t be a problem to sell it for a few hundred thousand. It’s already routine for someone like Jethro to gamble away all his property, but it’s never
got nothing else to do while staying here, anyway, thought Ron. With that, he began
…
getting late, so she phoned Zoe and told the latter that she wasn’t going back to the
her surprise, however, she ran into Celia in the grocery
Leanna saw her. When she saw the latter, her pupils dilated at once; it took a long time before she finally made a sound,
her. “Do you live around
to Celia’s lips, but she bit her tongue and choked it back. Instead, she made an excuse, saying, “No, I don’t. I’m just hanging around here with my friends today. I noticed that the fish
eyes toward the
else to do,
“Hold on a minute.”
very instant Leanna stopped her. Her neck stiffened, and she turned
handed the shopping bag nearby to her. “You forgot to take your
while forcing a weak smile. “Thank you, Miss McKinney. Well, then, I gotta
“See you around.”
the shopping bag in her hand, Celia dashed to the payment
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