Chapter 527

Aidan grunted, “Yeah, I did.”

Leanna didn’t say anything further. Seeing the gloomy look on his face, she figured something bad must have happened. She patted his back, comforting him silently. A long while later, she whispered, “Let’s go. I’ll make something for you. What would you like to eat?”

He cheekily asked, “You’d make anything?”

I knew I shouldn’t have comforted him. She pulled her hand back. “Time to go.”

They got into the car, and Aidan looked at her. “I don’t feel like going home.”

Leanna started the engine and drove the car. “So, where would you like to go?”

“Where would you like to go?”

“Home. I want to sleep,” she answered seriously.

“Well, that can be arranged.”

I don’t like where this is going. She didn’t bother to entertain him further.

A few moments later, he entered an address into the GPS. “I’d like to go to this place.”

She glanced at the screen and said, “Sure.”

The place they were heading was in the old area. Highside was a big place. Even though Leanna had been around for a long time, she couldn’t recall ever setting foot in this area. It took her an hour just to get to the place Aidan had told her.

was a desolate place abandoned by its people a

and stared ahead. “This was where I lived before I was taken

stared ahead in

“Yes.”

She wasn’t sure if she should

bought this place a

“Was it you?”

looked at her and smiled.

“Huh?”

bought this place because he caught wind of the government’s decision to develop this wing. But after the change of mayors, the project had been called off, and this became

while of silence later, Leanna whispered, “I can never understand this place only to abandon it in

“If the investment can’t make any

of this place had been the worst in this area. If the government didn’t help

the distance, and Leanna rested her head on Aidan’s shoulder, staring

near one another, and alleyways riddled the streets. It was a quiet place. Nobody would think this was part of Highside if they didn’t know better. A while later, Leanna thought she should ask some

“Yes.”

else was

“No.”

look simple, but her air spoke of a sense of regality that not even

since I was born, this was where

feeling that these slums weren’t Naomi’s real home either. There must be something more to that

fully set, and dusk

on the seat and fell asleep. When she woke up, she realized Aidan wasn’t driving them home. She moved her

Softly, he said, “Home.”

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