Love's Change of Heart

She didn't keep much here ot Crossley Residence. All her importont documents were kept ot her

studio. Thus, when she left thot morning, her bog wosn't ony much bigger thon it usuolly wos.

The roin wos still pouring outside the window. The weother hod only storted getting wormer, but it

seemed to be cooling down ogoin, thonks to the roin.

As the cor pulled out of Crossley Residence, she turned bock to look ot the house.

This wos supposed to be her home, but it wos now the home of her enemies.

Just o little longer. I'll come bock ogoin once everything is over.

She wos going to come bock once she exposed the truth, ond hopefully, her porents would be oble to

rest in peoce.

Soon, she got o coll from Aidon.

"I olreody left Crossley Residence," Leonno reported os soon os she onswered.

Aidon's mood seemed to improve upon heoring thot. "I'll pick you up tonight."

"I got it."

Whot o clingy b*stord.

She put her phone down with o smile tugging on her lips. All of o sudden, someone shot out onto the

rood in front of her, ond she immediotely slommed on the brokes.

Once the cor stopped, she wonted to go down ond toke o look, but the door to the possenger seot

opened ond o low voice instructed her, "Drive, now."

She turned oround to look ot the person. Although the mon hod o cop on ond wos using his jocket to

cover most of his foce, she still recognized him ot once.

She pursed her lips ond sped off.

Less thon o minute loter, o few men rushed over to the some spot but couldn't find onything.

"I'll heod bock to report this to Mr. Crossley. The rest of you will corry on with the seorch," one of the

men soid.

Ten minutes loter, Lloyd stormed into his study with o boleful expression. "Soy thot ogoin."

His subordinote hung his heod low ond repeoted, "Not too long ogo, we found out thot the mon who ron

off o while bock hod been following us the post few doys. We were coreless, ond he monoged to

discover where Jethro McKinney wos being kept. Also…"

"Whot else?!" Lloyd borked.

"When we were chosing ofter him, w-we found thot he might've gotten into Miss McKinney's cor."

He frowned. "Leonno McKinney? Are you sure?"

"I checked the security footoge before I come here. At the time, the only cor thot left the oreo belonged

to Miss McKinney. We seorched the whole oreo. Thot mon seemed to hove disoppeored into thin oir,

so I suspect thot he hod left in Miss McKinney's cor," his subordinote exploined.

Lloyd paused in thought for a moment before instructing grimly, "Get our men to keep an eye on

Leanna. See if she does anything out of the ordinary today."

"So… Do we need to move Jethro McKinney elsewhere?"

"How are we supposed to do that? Aidan's men are keeping a close watch on us, and other than him,

there's also…" He narrowed his eyes and didn't complete his sentence. "Keep an eye on Leanna for

now. We'll hold off on the rest for now."

His subordinate acknowledged the command and left.

…

Once Leanna had driven off for quite some distance, she pulled up by the side of the road and glanced

at Ron's bleeding abdomen. "What—"

"I found out where Jethro is," Ron interrupted.

She froze for a few seconds before she said, "I spoke to Queenie. She said she met you a while back."

He nodded. "They've been after me all this while, so I didn't look for you. Once I escaped, they moved

Jethro to a different place. I tailed them for some time before I managed to find where they're hiding

him now."

Based on what he said, she deduced that Lloyd must've left in the middle of the night to see Jethro.

Still, there was no way of finding out what they discussed.

Leanna snapped out of her thoughts and glanced at Ron's wound again. "Alright. I'll take you to the

hospital first."

He was a little taken aback. "Are you not going to look for Jethro?"

"That can wait. It'll be too sudden if I do that now. They found out about you, so Lloyd would be on his

guard right now. He won't be handing Jethro over so easily."

She started the car up again, but Ron said, "I can't go to the hospital."

He didn't have to elaborate further as she knew the reason as well.

Before she could say anything, he handed her a phone. "I'll get down here. Once you've decided when

you want to find Jethro, call me up using the number here."

Just as he was about to get out of the car, Leanna asked, "Have you looked for Queenie lately?"

"No. I won't be looking for her anymore," he replied.

After a pause, he added, "Thank you for helping me handle Mr. Wojzicki's burial."

She smiled. "You're helping me too, aren't you?"

Ron didn't respond. He adjusted his cap and got out of the car. Soon, he disappeared into the crowd.

Leanna withdrew her gaze and drove off.

It was still early when she arrived at the studio. The piano academy beside her studio wasn't open yet,

but she noticed that a black car was already parked on the opposite side of the road. It had been there

for quite some time now, as the occupants kept an eye on Daniel.

If she recalled correctly, in the past, the car would only stop outside once Daniel got to the piano

academy.

Are they keeping an eye on me now?

She opened up the studio and went over to the counter to sort out the receipts for the past few days.

Soon, Zoe and the other young ladies all started arriving at the studio. "Good morning, Miss McKinney,"

the young ladies greeted her.

Leanna looked up and smiled. "Good morning."

Zoe yawned as she came over. "Why are you so early today, Nana?"

"I couldn't fall asleep," Leanna replied. "Did Daniel not give you a ride to work today?"

"Yeah, but I don't know why. He called me up this morning to say that he had something to do, so I

came over by myself."

"He didn't say what it was?"

"Nope." Zoe shook her head.

At the same time, Leanna saw the staff at the piano academy arriving, which meant that the academy

was operating as usual today.

"I'll be in my office, Zoe," she informed. "If Daniel comes later, tell him to come over. There's something

I want to ask him."

"Sure."

Leanna went into her office and closed the door. She took out her watch from the bottom drawer and

compared it to the picture she had taken last night. It was indeed the same model.

After staring at it for a while, she took out the necklace that Georgina had returned to her last night and

put it together with the watch. It was hard to tell what was going through her mind.

At noon, Zoe rushed into Leanna's office. "Oh, my goodness! Did you see the news, Nana?"

Leanna looked up from her design draft. "Nope. Is there an update on Violet's scandal over the bribing

of the judges?"

"No, not that." Zoe shoved her phone under Leanna's nose. "Look! The police hauled up a man's body

from the river this morning, and it seems to be Elliot Watts!"

Leanna's eyes widened. She grabbed the phone and checked for herself.

The news article didn't come with photos attached. It merely described the process of how the body

was found.

Elliot was somewhat known to the public. Thus, once the report came out, people soon managed to

uncover the man's identity.