Love's Change of Heart

Chapter 694 Damn the Wealthy

The moment Leanna arrived at the studio the next morning, one of the girls presented her with an invitation. “Someone from Pearson Group gave us this.”

“Pearson Group?” Leanna opened the invitation. It was for the company’s anniversary event, and she turned around. “Do you know of this?”

Aidan grunted and made his way to the office. “Yeah.”

Leanna followed him, then she closed the door. “Are you going, then?”

Aidan looked at her and said, “That invitation is for you, not me, honey.”

Someone’s throwing all the stress at me. The news of Aidan’s resignation made its rounds at first, but a month later, people had already forgotten about the matter and returned to their normal lives. Everyone in the company had accepted the fact that Justin was now their president. The changes in the top brass meant nothing for them as long as they weren’t fired or getting any pay reductions.

Over the last month, nothing big happened in the company. Everything was running as usual. Justin had gone from being an abandoned child to the talk of the town in upper society. However, the comments that were made about him were vastly different from those about Aidan. Aidan was arrogant, ruthless, and reckless, while Justin was warm, soft-spoken, and gentlemanly. They could see why Justin was the eldest while the other was just an illegitimate child.

The celebration was just an event for these people to gather and chat a bit more. Justin knew Aidan wouldn’t attend the event, so he sent the invitation to Leanna instead. If Leanna were to go, then Aidan would show up as well.

Leanna put the invitation aside. When Sienna died, she did declare that she would have no ties to the Pearsons anymore, so she wouldn’t accept the invitation just because Justin asked her to.

Jonathan came over a few times over the next few days to report about the work in Arcburg to Aidan. Every time he left, he would somehow end up taking the desserts Aidan bought for Leanna. Leanna would say she couldn’t finish them.

Leanna did buy them some food back when she visited Pearson Group, but this time, Jonathan thought something felt off, though he couldn’t put a finger on it. For some reason, Aidan wasn’t giving him the stink-eye when he took the desserts. In fact, there was a warm glow in his eyes, which was frightening.

After he left, Leanna asked, “I thought you handed the company over to Justin, so why do you even have to handle work in Arcburg?”

eyebrow. “Do

say next, Leanna looked away.

means yes when it comes to

remember that one quote

asking, so he said, “When I worked in Arcburg three years ago, I invested in something,

Curious, Leanna asked, “And?”

share prices skyrocketed, and I became its

you rich people. Leanna looked down and refused to

Jonathan went back to Pearson

“Is this

Master Justin, but I don’t think I’m experienced enough to

see you’ve chosen

nothing, but he

placed the resignation letter on the table. “Very well. I won’t force you to stay, but the celebration is in a few days. You know more about it than I do, and you’re the only one who can settle most of the work. Can you stay until the celebration

see why not. “Of

the details of our potential partners. Make sure we have the right information. And I’m not very sure about the flow of the celebration, so go through the draft of the proposed agenda. Change anything you find unnecessary. You don’t have to report

a few pages and opened the next file. It was about a company under Joseph’s name. It’s

It was mostly the same as last year’s, though there was an inclusion of a charity dinner. Jonathan read through the list of auction items and took notice of one

Jonathan

said in a warmer tone than

one of the items that are going to be auctioned off during the dinner is a ring—the engagement ring of the Crossleys more than twenty

through the pages of his book.

was kept by Theodore Frost, and it showed up in a jewelry exhibit before. If I’m right, Miss