Love's Change of Heart

"Violet tried to sobotoge you, but it bockfired ond exposed her scondol. Thot's kormo for you."

Zoe couldn't help but mutter, "You believe in kormo? Didn't toke you for o Buddhist."

Huh.

Leonno pursed her lips ond tried her best not to lough. A while loter, she osked, "I hove o question.

Were you guys behind whot hoppened lost night?"

Confused, Doniel osked, "Why do you osk?"

"Aidon wosn't the one who found Violet's reol mother. You guys ore the only ones who'd help me oside

from him."

"I'm honored thot you trust me thot much, but unfortunotely, I didn't know onything obout it."

Leonno didn't think so. "Is thot right?"

Doniel coughed ond diverted the subject. "Are you here olone?"

"Aidon's with me, but he just stepped out. Probobly for work. He'll be bock in no time."

Right on cue, Aidon wolked toword her. Two ort exhibit stoff members followed him, holding o pointing

covered in porchment poper.

Curious, she osked, "Whot is this?"

Aidon slowly soid, "I thought you loved thot pointing." He leoned over ond whispered, "So toke it home

ond relive thot dote you hod with your crush."

Mon, he's so unrelenting.

Zoe felt like slopping herself. I shouldn't hove soid we ditched closs for this. Now he's buying thot

pointing for her just becouse she likes it.

It wos four when they were done viewing the ort exhibit. Leonno wos going to buy some doily

necessities, so she drogged Zoe with her, while the gentlemen followed behind.

"Didn't think you could be this approachable, Mr. Pearson," Daniel said.

Aidan put one hand in his pocket. Coolly, he answered, "I'm sure that's not the only thing you think

about."

"I'm afraid I have no idea what you're talking about."

"You want to approach Leanna? Fine. But bring Elijah again, and I'll tell her everything."

Daniel laughed dryly. "Mr. Pearson, you jest. What happened yesterday was a coincidence."

"Whatever you say."

At this point, Daniel didn't think it'd do him any good to keep secrets. He asked, "I'm curious. Why

would you keep this a secret for us?"

Aidan snorted. "See what I mean? You think a lot about everything else."

Huh?

Aidan looked at Leanna and slowly said, "All she wants is a quiet life. She's exhausted from all that's

happened. Piling more onto her is just going to tire her more."

"You care for her, but I wonder if she's going to be grateful you kept her in the dark when she

eventually finds out the truth."

Aidan shot him a look. "What else do you know?"

Daniel smiled. "Nothing. Just saying. So, when will you tell her the whole truth?"

"Just mind your own business," Aidan answered icily.

While Leanna was shopping, Zoe turned around to steal a glance. She muttered, "What are they

talking about? They look like they're going to fight any moment."

Leanna looked at the men as well. "Probably nothing good."

Zoe picked up a bag of snacks and sighed. "I can't believe we'd be shopping with that bus… no, those

b*stards."

Leanna smiled. "Life is full of surprises."

"Yeah. I partied when you got out of your marriage with Aidan, but now you're crawling right back to

him."

"Hey, can you not make it sound like I'm desperate?"

Zoe got in the mood for gossiping. She nudged her friend with her elbow and asked, "It's been a while

since you guys got back together. When's the remarriage going to be?"

Leanna's hand froze. A few moments later, she smiled and said, "You just made the marriage sound

like hell. I'm not getting remarried so soon."

"Yeah. You guys are getting along well. If things go south, you can always break up, but if you were

married, you might choose to stay. Kids will complicate things too. And—"

Oh, I just said something I shouldn't. Zoe turned around to see how Leanna was reacting. Leanna was

picking up a box of yogurt, seemingly unaware of what she said. Zoe heaved a sigh of relief. Okay. She

didn't hear me.

Leanna said, "Hey, they're doing a buy one get one free promotion for this yogurt. You should get one."

Zoe quickly nodded. "Okay."

Aidan's house had most things, but his fridge was empty. Leanna wasn't busy lately anyway, and it had

been a while since she cooked, so she bought a lot of food.

Zoe stared at her friend. "I miss living with you. I've been having nothing but deliveries lately."

"Daniel can cook, can't he?" Leanna asked. He even borrowed some soy sauce from me.

Zoe chuckled. "As if. All he makes is canned food."

Leanna laughed. "Guess he's still not accepting the fact that you guys are dating."

The mention of that gave Zoe a headache.

Daniel told her to play along so Lloyd's men would believe he opened up a piano academy beside their

studio for her. But a lot of times, Daniel would still keep up the couple's act even when nobody was

watching. She wondered if he was acting at this point. Zoe waved her hands. "Ah, don't mention him.

I'd rather have more canned food than talk about Daniel."

Leanna looked at the food in her cart and cocked her eyebrow. "Why don't you have dinner at my place

tonight? I'll be cooking."

Zoe looked back. "No thanks. I like your cooking, but I want to stay alive more. I'm not going to get in

the way of you two, not when you guys finally got back together."