Love's Change of Heart

"But Lloyd Crossley died twenty years ago. Surely he didn't appear in everyone's dreams or

something?"

The person who refuted Aidan immediately flushed red.

Someone quickly roared again, "Who cares if it's Lloyd Crossley or Leroy Crossley? It doesn't change

the fact that the Crossley Group owes us money. We want to—"

"What? Drag the Crossley Group down with you?"

"That's an overstatement. We only want our money!"

Aidan's face remained emotionless when he questioned, "Is this how you should act when asking for

due salary?"

The crowd fell silent when they heard that.

They were only here under Jimmy's instructions to kick up a fuss at the entrance. They didn't think they

would need to answer questions like this.

Furthermore, Aidan was so intimidating they could hardly breathe even though he was only standing

there.

They knew they were no match for him in terms of arguing.

Just as they struggled to answer him, Leanna lightly informed them, "I'm aware that there have been

many incidents regarding the Crossley Group lately and that everyone has been affected or

inconvenienced one way or another. I am here to solve these problems."

She paused briefly before continuing, "I promise that the Crossley Group will adequately handle

everything, but I hope that everyone who is involved can give me time to get things moving. I will need

to approach the problems step by step. You will only make things worse by gathering and causing a

disturbance here. It's unfair for the victims who are quietly waiting for a solution."

She could hear many sounds of approval from outside the crowd as soon as she said that.

At some point, reporters appeared at the scene.

Seeing this, the crowd who was protesting started to worry about getting themselves in trouble, and

they hurried off without saying another word.

The company's entrance was empty in no time.

It was only then that Aidan let Leanna go. "I've miscalculated," he murmured with a chuckle.

Confused, she turned to look at him. "What?"

"You would have handled that perfectly even if I wasn't here."

She raised her eyebrows. "You're complimenting me?"

"Is it not obvious?"

Leanna smiled in return. She would have to disagree with what Aidan said. In fact, she didn't expect all

this to happen. She would have been eaten alive by the unexpected crowd.

If it weren't for Aidan being beside her, she wouldn't have been composed enough to say what she

said.

He then looked at the entrance of the Crossley Group and said, "I won't be able to go in with you."

"I can handle this." She nodded.

As soon as she said that, a voice rang out from beside them. "Am I… invisible to you?"

Leanna was at a loss for words and when she looked in the direction the voice came from, she saw

Freddie had appeared at some point.

Before she could ask anything, Aidan told her, "Many of the contracts with the Crossley Group will

involve legal issues. People can easily fool you if there's something you're unclear about. He can help

you with that."

Freddie sighed at that. "I'm an unremarkable tool for people to use, and you're exactly the type of

person who comes to me only when you need me."

Aidan quietly glanced over, immediately shutting Freddie up. The latter then took a look at the time

before he urged, "Alright, alright. We've wasted enough time here. Let's go. We have to look at the

problematic contracts first."

Leanna turned to Aidan. "I'm off," she said.

"Alright."

She took a deep breath and looked away before she strode in the direction of the main entrance.

She had just stepped into the building when Jimmy hurried over from the elevator with an apologetic

smile on his face. "You're here, Miss McKinney! I had something to attend to earlier, which was why I

couldn't personally welcome you. I'm truly—"

However, Leanna cut in, "Mr. Ollander, enough with the pleasantries. Take me to my office, please."

The smile on Jimmy's face quickly stiffened. He glanced at Freddie for a second and the look on his

face soon fell. "Right this way, Miss McKinney."

After they got into the elevator, Jimmy began to cotton up to Freddie. "We've met, Mr. Sutton. Do you

remember me? It was at your father's birthday celebration."

Freddie let out a gentle smile then. "Is that so?"

"Yes, yes."

"But it's not a good thing to be remembered by me. If I remember you, it's either because you're a

business elite I brought to prison because of corruption and bribery, or you're a company leader who

embezzled public funds and spent hundreds of millions you shouldn't. Right, Mr. Ollander?"

Jimmy immediately went silent upon hearing that.

As Leanna stared at the elevator display which indicated that they were ascending, she stated, "Mr.

Ollander, I told you yesterday that I want all the senior executives of the company gathered for a

meeting at 10.00AM today. Have you notified them?"

"I did, but…"

"But what?"

"Two of them can't attend due to personal reasons. One of them is sick and the other one—"

"What a coincidence. Everything's happening all at once."

Jimmy sighed. "Right…"

"Fine, then. They should rest since their 'personal reasons' are keeping them busy. I'm free anyway. I'll

personally visit them later in the day to finalize the issue with the employees' salaries."