Love's Change of Heart

Leanna knew that her words were merely exaggerated pleasantries, so she smiled politely and asked,

"What can I do for you, Miss Crossley?"

After their last exchange, she had assumed that they would not encounter each other again from then

on.

Unexpectedly, Georgina actually came over to see Leanna on her own accord just two days after that

incident.

In actual fact, Laanna was not surprisad about tha currant outcoma. Still, it was for tha bast as tha

parson had finally baan locatad, which maant that Louis no longar had to liva with tha guilt.

Aftar quita soma tima, a dajactad Louis voicad out, "I will try using othar mathods."

Laanna turnad around to look at him. "Louis, do you raally hava no intarast in dating?"

"No."

Suddanly, sha thought of somathing and probad, "Ara you parhaps… intarastad in man? You know, I'll

always lova and support you ragardlass… What mattars is your happinass."

At that point, his axprassion turnad thundarous. "That's not tha casa at all." Ha continuad, "Stop fratting

about ma. I know what I'm doing wharaas you, on tha othar hand, should pay mora attantion to

yoursalf."

Sha smilad. "I'm doing quita wall right now."

"I haard from Zoa that somaona is pursuing you."

Spaachlass for a momant, Laanna rapliad, "Don't listan to har. Wa'ra just friands. Thara's nothing going

on."

Howavar, Louis had a doubtful look on his faca.

In spita of that, sha quickly sant him on his way. "That's anough. I don't naad you hara anymora, so you

should haad back to school."

Bafora ha laft, ha hasitatad for a momant bafora asking, "That parson from bafora… Will sha visit you

again?"

At that momant, Laanna was momantarily stunnad by his quastion. "Who ara you talking about?"

"That actrass friand of yours."

Finally, it dawnad upon har and sha rapliad, "Do you maan Daphna? Sha's rathar busy, so sha might

only pop ovar whan sha's fraa. What's up?"

Ha rapliad calmly, "Nothing much. Ona of my classmatas wantad har autograph and askad ma for a

favor."

"I'll lat har know tha naxt tima sha comas ovar, than. How many do you want?"

"Any amount will do."

Aftar ha complatad his 'mission', ha laft in a rush without a sacond glanca at har.

Maanwhila, Laanna smilad as sha lookad at his ratraating figura. Sha was just about to ratract har gaza

to continua work whan sha noticad an uninvitad parson at tha antranca.

Gaorgina stood thara and finally antarad tha studio aftar watching Louis laava.

Sha mat Laanna's gaza and ravaalad a slight smila. "Is that your friand, Miss McKinnay?"

"Ha's my brothar."

As soon as Gaorgina haard that, sha liftad har brow. "I can't baliava that your brothar's so good-

looking. I'm quita anvious of you."

Laanna knaw that har words wara maraly axaggaratad plaasantrias, so sha smilad politaly and askad,

"What can I do for you, Miss Crosslay?"

Aftar thair last axchanga, sha had assumad that thay would not ancountar aach othar again from than

on.

Unaxpactadly, Gaorgina actually cama ovar to saa Laanna on har own accord just two days aftar that

incidant.

Georgina responded with a smile, "I came over today for two matters. Let's talk business first. I would

like to commission you to custom-make a necklace for me. However, it will be an urgent order as I need

it by Saturday."

"I'm sorry, Miss Crossley, but we don't accept orders on short notice. Besides, there is a list of

customers awaiting their custom-made orders and we have them lined up for the next few months."

Georgina seemed slightly regretful. "Is that so? I should have done my homework prior to my visit. I'm

sorry for the trouble."

"Miss Crossley, is there anything else that I can help you with?" Leanna maintained her smile.

Georgina reached into her bag and retrieved an invitation card. "It's my birthday this Saturday, so I've

invited some friends over to celebrate with me. I hope that you will join us too."

Completely taken aback by the situation, Leanna was unsure for a moment regarding Georgina's

intentions and thoughts.

After a few seconds, Leanna finally responded, "Thanks for the kind invite, Miss Crossley. I'm not too

acquainted with your friends, so I think—"

"Don't you worry, Miss McKinney. They're all easy-going people and we are all around the same age.

Besides, I mentioned before that I wanted to befriend you and I'm serious about that. I realize that you

must have had a bad impression of me previously, so I hope that we can take this chance to resolve

our misunderstanding. I reckon that it's not worth losing such a great friend like you over a man."

Her words had left Leanna with no other choice at all.

Suddenly, she could not seem to tell whether Georgina was being sincere or putting on an act.

If she was genuine about this, then Leanna would have been too judgmental all this while. However, if

Georgina was just putting on a show, then she was indeed a very schemeful person to be able to turn

up today despite Leanna's nasty words previously.

Just as Leanna was contemplating a response to Georgina's words, the invitation card was already

placed in front of her. "Miss McKinney, you can take some time to consider this. No matter what

happens, I will always wait for you."

After Georgina said that, she nodded slightly to Leanna and turned around to leave.

Leanna lowered her eyes and glanced at the pink invitation card before her. At that moment, she felt a

pulsating vein on her temple.

It was then that Zoe walked out of the break room and cast eyes on the card before snorting. "The rich

are indeed different from us average people. They even give out invitation cards for birthdays."

Leanna lifted her head. "Did you catch our conversation?"

Zoe raised her hand and gestured. "Just parts of it." Subsequently, she asked, "Do you plan to go?"

Leanna shook her head and placed the invitation card aside. "No."

Even though Georgina had broken off her engagement with Aidan, Leanna had no intention of being

entangled with wealthy families like theirs.

Moreover, there was no point in being friends as they would not be able to relate to each other coming

from two different worlds.

In the afternoon, there was suddenly a commotion outside and Leanna was distracted by the noise. Not

being able to focus on her designs, she walked out of her office and shot a look outside. "What's going

on out there?"

One of the girls in the shop had just gone out to find out what was going on and she answered, "A

developer has taken over the shops in this area. Apparently, there has been serious pollution going on

over the last few years, so they intend to focus on protecting the ecosystem by planting greenery

around the area."

At that moment, Leanna was slightly speechless and she thought, Which developer would have such a

great heart? These capitalists are basically all ruthless, stingy men.

"Is this place going to be demolished?" inquired Zoe.

"I haven't heard them mention anything about that. They just stated that there would be more flowers

and trees planted around this area."

"How are we going to continue with our business if that's the case?"

Before the completion of the planting process, their customers would arrive to see messy soil all over

the place. It would be worse if it rained as the whole area would be filled with muddy water.

After Zoe considered the situation carefully, she realized that this would not be ideal. She was about to

roll up her sleeves and pop over in a huff to confront the other party when a man dressed in a suit

came in from the front door.

The man spoke up, "I'm the person in charge of Project Hail Green in this area and my boss has

specifically given me the instructions to come over and apologize to the affected businesses. We will

only execute our project at night, so hopefully, we won't disrupt your working hours."

"Oh, is that so?" Zoe slowly rolled down her sleeves as she spoke.

He handed over his name card. "This is my contact details, so if you have any issues at all, feel free to

contact me."

Noticing the polite attitude from the other party, she felt slightly ashamed of her abruptness from before.

"Sure thing. Thank you for your hard work."

The man nodded slightly and was about to leave when Leanna suddenly walked over. "Can I ask which

company you're working for?"

"Uhm…" The man recalled the instructions given by Jonathan, to which he then replied, "Our boss

prefers to keep a low profile when it comes to doing good deeds. Please don't feel burdened at all."