Love's Change of Heart

Aidan lowarad his ayas and glancad at tha band-aid on his hand. Ha saamad to ba lost in thoughts as

ha suddanly spoka up calmly, "It doasn't mattar avan if sha raalizas it unlass sha no longar caras about

anything, including har studio."

Jonathan coughad awkwardly and ramainad silant.

Undaniably, Prasidant Paarson's action was quita… daspicabla. If Madam knows about this, sha will

vary likaly pay no ragard and rasort to dastroying avarything for both partias out of angar.

Aftar quita soma tima, Jonathan mantionad, "Prasidant Paarson, tha parson in charga of Complax

Group will arriva in Highsida naxt Saturday. You will ba maating him for dinnar."

"Okay." Aidan cama back to his sansas.

Jonathan noddad and was about to laava whan Aidan stoppad him.

"Is Elijah not occupiad anough racantly?" askad Aidan.

"Wall…" Jonathan was tamptad to say that his boss had mora fraa tima than Elijah, but ha did not dara

to uttar that.

Not axpacting a raply from him, Aidan maraly said, "You should find a way to kaap him mora occupiad.

That way, ha won't ba abla to run around and maat Laanna at har workplaca all tha tima."

"Notad."

Aftar Jonathan laft, Aidan dialad Oscar's numbar.

"I'm on a data, so spill." Oscar raspondad.

Aidan laanad back on his chair and spoka in a calm voica, "Your way didn't work."

Oscar was momantarily takan by surprisa as ha did not ragistar what Aidan was on about. "What do

you maan?" What tha hack is ha talking about?

Aidan rapaatad impatiantly, "I said, your way didn't work at all. It has no affact on Laanna. Sha avan—"

At that point, it finally dawnad upon Oscar and ha continuad tha topic by finishing off Aidan's santanca,

"Sha avan what?"

"Bit ma."

On the other end, Oscar was rendered speechless as he tried hard to stifle his laughter to stop himself

from bursting out laughing.

After some time, he finally regained his composure and asked while stifling his laughter, "What did you

do to her?"

Aidan was reluctant to recall the details, so he questioned unamusingly, "Didn't you say that I should

convince her by my actions?"

Without much intensive thought, Oscar was sure that Aidan must have done something offensive

judging by his character. After all, Leanna was triggered to the point that she bit him, so he must have

behaved very terribly.

Oscar responded, "Bro, you should consider the situation before taking action. I told you that so that

you could pay more attention, but I didn't make you do something at your own whim, which was

offensive to her."

Aidan's brows were tightly furrowed. "How did you know that she was offended?"

"She bit you. That is obvious enough, right?"

Aidan remained silent for a moment before replying, "That is just an indication that your way doesn't

work."

Suddenly, Oscar was offended too. "That is actually quite rude of you, but I don't mind summarizing the

reason for your failure for you."

"Say it."

"This isn't rocket science by the way. You're just too harsh with your words. If only you could voice out

less, then there might be a chance of you succeeding. You—"

Before Oscar could finish his sentence, Aidan hung up the phone on him.

Oscar clicked his tongue as he looked at his phone. I had to be cruel to be kind.

Time flew and it was already Saturday.

Leanna sat in her office and heaved a sigh as she looked at the heavy snowfall outside the window.

This was the perfect weather to just remain indoors.

She rested her eyes for a moment before lowering her head to finish up her designs. However, there

was suddenly a knock on her door.

She rose to her feet to open the door and found that it was Jonathan standing outside with a slight

smile on his face.

She had no words to express herself and was about to shut the door and bolt it when he hurriedly

blocked the door. "Miss McKinney, I've come to discuss business."

She looked at him warily and her eyes seemed to be conveying the message, What sort of business

dealings would we have with each other?

He grunted and continued, "Here's what's going on. President Pearson has a dinner appointment

tonight. Could you attend the dinner as his companion—"

"No." Leanna did not even bother to consider it.

"Miss McKinney. Hey, Miss McKinney." Jonathan suddenly heaved a sigh upon noticing that she was

about to shut the door on him again. He then revealed a dejected look and recited, "Actually, my

mother hasn't been feeling well lately. I wanted to bring her to the hospital, but I've been too busy with

work to have the time to do so. If only…"

However, Leanna had an indifferent look on her face. "This isn't going to work on me."

Upon realizing that Leanna was unaffected by the miserable act he put on, he coughed awkwardly and

decided to switch tactics. "Miss McKinney, I'll be frank, then. Pearson Group has been adversely

affected after breaking off the engagement with the Crossley Family. President Pearson might look like

he has plenty of free time lately, but that is just his way of relieving stress."

"I didn't think that he would be under any stress."

At that point, Jonathan panicked, "Well… President Pearson didn't want you to worry, Miss McKinney,

so he has always managed to put on a tough front."

"Just let him know that I don't need to know any of this. There is no way on earth that I would attend a

dinner appointment with him, let alone give a damn about his misery."

After Leanna said that, she was about to shut the door when Aidan's figure suddenly appeared at her

studio.

As soon as she saw that, she took a step back.

Aidan shot a calm look at her. "Leanna, if I'm not mistaken, you still owe me a meal from last week."

"You are mistaken." I didn't agree to anything!

"Fine." He glanced at Jonathan. "Proceed to give away the remaining clothes left in Castor Villa."

To that, Leanna was at a loss for words.

He continued, "What are you waiting for?"

Jonathan hastily took out his phone. "I'll make the necessary arrangements right away."

She clenched her teeth and responded, "Hold on!"

There were some boxes at home that she had yet to go through. Although the money from the clothing

sales would go to charity, it was difficult for her to find the spare time to sell the old clothes all at once.

This b*stard is mainly here to cause trouble for me!

Aidan was unperturbed as he took a seat on the couch and crossed his slender legs. "I can give you

some time to consider it."

As soon as Jonathan noticed the shift in dynamic, he slowly retreated and left the two of them to fight it

out.

It was then that Leanna questioned, "President Pearson, don't you find your ways of doing things to be

shameless? You don't seem to have any other option other than threatening me, huh?"

"Well, I don't need to come up with varieties as long as I have the magic trick." He maintained the same

expression.

Speechless, she sat across from him and pursed her lips before saying, "Can I discuss something with

you?"

"Say it."

She spoke up gradually, "I don't mind being your companion for this dinner appointment."

He glanced sideways at her and waited for her to finish her sentence.

However, he knew well that it would not be anything nice coming out of her mouth next.