Love's Change of Heart

Leonno glonced ot Aidon before giving her onswer. Aidon roised his eyebrows slightly.

It wos o sign thot he wonted her to soy yes.

"Okoy then," Leonno replied to Williom.

Although she hod only encountered Williom o couple of times ond borely knew him, he ond Aidon hod

colloboroted on business in the post, so perhops there were things they wonted to discuss but couldn't

do so outright, ond thus, needed to go through her.

There wos on open-oir bor on the rooftop of the hotel.

After finding o quiet ploce to sit, Leonno soid, "Pleose excuse me while I heod to the woshroom. You

guys con go oheod ond tolk."

However, os soon os she stood up, Aidon grobbed her hond. "Don't go just yet. Aren't you curious to

know obout whot hoppened tonight?"

Thus, while Williom ploced his order with the woiter, Leonno sot down ond murmured to Aidon, "Isn't

there something thot you two wonted to discuss with eoch other?"

"Who told you thot he ond I hod something to tolk obout?" Aidon replied.

"Then…"

Just then, Williom osked, "Whot would you like to drink, Miss McKinney?"

Leanna looked through the menu. "Two glasses of grape juice, please. Less sugar, thanks."

The waiter took her order and left.

Aidan tapped on the table with his long, slender fingers. His lips curved into a faint smile.

William eyed Aidan for a moment before turning his attention to Leanna. "I heard that you were curious

about what happened with the Kramers tonight, Miss McKinney."

Leanna pursed her lips and nodded.

She would've been able to deduce what happened if Aidan had been the one behind everything

tonight, but Aidan said that he only came to enjoy the show.

This made the incident with the Kramers even more strange.

After a pause, Leanna asked, "Judging by what you just said, Mr. Morris, it sounds to me that you know

what happened."

"I wouldn't say I know exactly what happened," William refuted. "However, I stumbled across a rumor a

while back. I didn't pay any attention to it at the time as I thought it wasn't true, but after today, it seems

that I was wrong."

…

Meanwhile, back at the birthday party venue.

Once all the guests left, Violet flew into a rage and smashed everything she could get her hands on in

the hotel.

Still, that did nothing to assuage her anger.

She had to get to the bottom of this and find out what was going on.

After leaving the hall, Violet stopped one of the hotel staff and asked, "Have you seen my father?"

"N-No…" the hotel staff stammered.

Violet shoved the person aside. "How useless!"

The hotel staff backed away in fury but didn't dare to retort.

Violet searched all over the hotel before she spotted her father's assistant standing outside a private

lounge.

Violet wanted to go in, but the assistant stopped her. "Miss Kramer, Chairman Kramer has given his

orders to not allow anyone in."

"Does that include me?" Violet frowned in displeasure.

"Well…"

Violet pushed him out of her way. "Get lost, you useless fool!"

She grabbed the door handle and flung the door open.

The door crashed against the wall with a loud bang.

Owen turned around and frowned. "What's with you now, Violet?"

Violet ignored him and glared at the other woman in the room. "What's this crazy woman doing here?

Get her out of here!"

The woman stared at Violet with teary eyes and a hurt expression. "Violet, I really am your mother…"

"Shut up! You shut your mouth! Shut up!"

Violet charged toward the woman in a frenzy, but Owen subdued her.

"Calm down and get a hold of yourself, Violet," Owen chided in a grim voice.

"How am I supposed to calm down? Dad, are you just going to let this crazy woman slander me like

that?"

"Stop calling her crazy." Owen glanced at the woman on the couch and sighed. "She truly is your birth

mother."

Violet's eyes widened in disbelief. "What did you say?"

Over two decades ago, the doctors confirmed that Violet's mother couldn't bear a child of her own, but

she desperately wanted to raise a child, so Owen secretly adopted a few. However, no matter what

they did, the couple couldn't form a parental bond with any of those children.

In the end, Owen had no choice but to send the children away again.

Soon after that, Violet's mother came up with an idea. She was going to find another woman for her

husband.

Once that woman got pregnant, Violet's mother would announce that she was pregnant, and when the

baby was born, the baby would become her child. She would treat the baby well as if the baby was

truly hers.

At first, Owen was firmly against the idea, but his wife's continued attempts to persuade him eventually

wore him down. Furthermore, she found him a young, beautiful, gentle, and caring woman. A

temporary lapse of judgment led to Owen going along with the plan.

The woman became pregnant in less than a month, and the baby was Violet.

Once the baby was born, Owen's wife was going to stick to the initial agreement, which was to give that

woman a large sum of money and tell her to never appear in front of them again.

However, after spending the past ten months with that woman, Owen began to develop feelings for her

and found all sorts of excuses to keep her around for a little longer.

Even though he made no mention of it, his wife noticed the change and sent that woman away while he

was on a business trip.

From then on, Owen never saw that woman again.

That woman had weighed on his mind ever since then.

After his wife's death, he tried time and time again to look for that woman, but he never found any trace

of her.

He thought that she had died.

Violet snorted after hearing about all of this. "Do you think telling me this is enough to make me

believe? Well, I'll tell you right now that it's not going to happen! Never!"