Love's Change of Heart

Chapter 104

In the afternoon the next day, Wendy had also heard the news that Leanna and Aidan were leaving. So, she brought many specialties from home and told them to bring them along.

After that, Wendy quietly pulled Leanna aside. "Leanna, are you and Aidan remarrying?"

Leanna did not know how to answer her.

This must be the real reason why you're here, Ms. Shaffer.

"No—"

"Hey, you don't have to feel embarrassed. I've been observing you two for the past few days. Aidan is a good man, rich and handsome. Others might take him away if you don't tie him down."

"Ms. Shaffer, I—"

"Leanna, listen to me. When you're my age, you will realize that all your bickerings are for naught. Outsiders might find it cute. Oh, I'm an old woman now. If I am twenty years younger…"

Wendy continued to drone on, and Leanna simply kept quiet because she couldn't get a word in.

Before she left, she took one last glance at the place she had lived for more than a month. Then, for some reason, she felt an inexplicable feeling that she was leaving home.

Be it Naomi or Wendy, even the neighbors around had shown her unprecedented warmth and care.

Aidan, who was standing in front of the car, saw Leanna turn back after three steps and did not understand her reluctance to leave, "It's not like you can't come back in the future. What's wrong with you?"

When she heard his impatient tone, she retracted her gaze and let out a silent sigh. "Right, a cold- blooded person like you wouldn't understand what it means to be around a group of people you get along with all the time."

He didn't know what to say as he lowered his head. "Leanna."

However, she flashed a smile and said, "Let's go, President Pearson."

Wendy initially wanted to send them to the airport with Naomi. However, it would only make them sadder. Leanna was also afraid that Wendy might say weird things in the car, so Leanna hastily refused.

Moreover, she also knew that, according to Wendy, Aidan was not very good with farewells.

As the car drove out of Underwood Lane, Leanna felt like she was in a warm and comfortable dream.

And now, it was time to wake up.

She had to be stronger than before to deal with what was about to happen.

…

After they got off the plane, Leanna said, "President Pearson, I'd better go home today to pack my things before I move over."

"Up to you."

As soon as Aidan said that, he strode away with his long legs and left her alone.

In fact, Leanna actually had nothing to pack. When she fled from Highside, she took everything she could and packed all her belongings into boxes.

She just didn't want to stay with him; she wanted an excuse to have a quiet night alone. Finally, she came up with that excuse.

Leanna quietly trailed behind. Once they left the airport, she was about to call a car when Jonathan appeared next to her. "Ms. McKinney, I'll send you off."

"Aren't you with Aidan?"

"President Pearson has to go back to the company. He told me to send you back."

"Oh."

As they entered the car, she was about to tell him her address when she saw that he had already keyed it into his GPS.

She was rendered speechless by his actions.

Jonathan laughed awkwardly when he noticed her astonished silence.

He could only hide his embarrassment with laughter.

Nevertheless, Leanna did not find it strange that he knew where she lived. He handled everything for Aidan; it would be weirder if Jonathan did not know.

When they were downstairs, he helped bring her suitcase down and said, "Ms. McKinney, President Pearson asked me to pick you up tomorrow. What do you think is a suitable time for you?"

Leanna stayed silent for a while before answering, "It's okay. I'll go over myself."

After she spoke, she raised her head to meet Jonathan's hesitant expression and gritted her teeth secretly. "Tell Aidan I'll be there!"

"Alright, Ms. McKinney. Goodbye, then."

Then, he quickly left.

As the black car drove away, she turned around and entered her apartment.

Once she was upstairs, she stood at the door and turned on the light, looking at the room that was covered in a layer of dust before sighing and lowering her head.

As a matter of fact, she had only lived here for less than a month; this place was not her home at all.

It was already 1:00AM when she finished packing everything.

Leanna sat by the bedside table. Then, after she settled down and thought about the matter, she decided to text Louis.

'Lou, come to Highside Prison with me tomorrow morning.'

On the other end, Louis wasn't asleep yet. So, when he received the message, he immediately called her. "Are you back in Highside?"

"Yeah, I just got off the plane a while ago."

"What are you going to do in prison?" He asked.

She looked out the window and answered softly, "Jethro is dead."

On the other end of the phone, he fell silent for a moment before calmly asking, "How did he die?"

"There was a fire outbreak during their attempt to escape, and he died on the spot."

"I'll pick you up tomorrow, then." He said.

"Okay."

The next day, there was a drizzle in the morning sky, and the whole city seemed shrouded in a layer of gray.

Leanna, dressed in black, was at the entrance of Highside Prison with Louis.

After they explained the purpose of their visit at the registration counter, the prison guard took them to where they kept the ashes. "Jethro's ashes and relics are all here. You can take them away after signing some papers."

Louis signed the papers while the prison guard looked at Louis and Leanna, who was standing beside him, and said, "I didn't expect Jethro to have children like you. He's so lucky."

Ever since Jethro was imprisoned, he had been causing a lot of trouble; he was either getting beaten or beating people up. Then, he would yell and say that his son-in-law was the president of Pearson Group, like a typical ruffian.

Regardless, all his cries weren't in vain as he managed to pull a group of people to try and escape with him. But unfortunately, it didn't work in his favor.

After Louis had signed the paper, he glanced at Jethro's ashes as his thin lips pressed tightly together. He did not answer the officer.

Leanna spoke up in order to ease the tension, "May we leave?" NôvelDrama.Org content.

"Yes, yes." The officer came to his senses and gave them Jethro's belongings.

As the guard watched the silhouettes of the two people getting farther and farther away, curiosity swallowed him up. With how Jethro was, how did he give birth to children with such temperament and appearance?

Could it be that he abducted them from somewhere?

After they departed from the prison, Louise said, "Leave the rest to me. You can go home and rest."

Leanna paused for a while; she knew that he was afraid she might not want to face Jethro. In the end, she smiled lightly and replied, "The man's dead. There's no use for me to hold onto the past. And, if it still bothered me, I wouldn't have shown up today."

This made him purse his lips slightly. "Whatever it is, you're pregnant. It's not appropriate for you to go to the cemetery. I'll just go alone."

"Lou, I'm really all right. Don't worry."