Love's Change of Heart

Zoe knew that Leanna had been forced to give up her dream of pursuing a career in

design three years ago, which was why Leanna was exceptionally appreciative of this

opportunity by giving her best foot forward.

After a short while, Zoe mentioned again, "Other than focusing on work, you should

consider things for yourself too. Zayn has contacted me several times lately. I reckon that

he's very close to appearing at the entrance of our magazine in order to get hold of me.

Anyway, you're already divorced from Aidan and Zayn's quite persistent, so why don't

you…"

Leanna shook her head. "Things have ended between me and Zayn."

"Why don't you reconsider him? Give him and yourself another chance."

"Zoe, I'm pregnant right now. Do you think that Zayn would accept being a stepfather?"

At that point, Zoe was at a loss for words. She tried several times to say something, but

she ended up remaining silent with a torn look.

That b*stard Aidan is such a troublemaker even after their divorce!

…

Inside Patheon Club at the card tables, a person glanced in the direction of the man

drinking silently by himself at a corner and whispered his question, "President Pearson

seems to be in a foul mood lately. Each time he's here, he would just be drinking by

himself and not join our game at all. What happened?"

Being the only person who knew the exact details of the scenario, Oscar replied, "What

else could have happened? He's gotten a divorce."

As soon as everyone at the card table heard that Aidan had gotten a divorce, they could

not contain themselves. The men tried to find out more information out of curiosity while

the women were impatient to make a move.

"President Pearson doesn't like his wife, right? Shouldn't he be happy after the divorce,

then?"

"Yeah, he's very happy. He's happily celebrating by himself, isn't he?"

At that point, the crowd was rendered speechless.

Oscar flicked his deck of cards on the table and announced, "I've won the game. Pay up,

guys."

While getting bored of winning halfway through the game, Oscar gave up his spot for

someone else and took a seat next to Aidan before pouring himself a drink. "What's wrong

with you? Why are you drinking by yourself here everyday? Don't tell me that you've

suddenly realized you can't bear to lose your wife after the divorce."

Aidan paused in his action of lifting his glass and sneered, "You must be delirious."

"Then, what is this that you're doing right now?"

"I seem to have been tricked by her."

Over the past few days, Aidan had calmed down significantly and considered the situation.

From the start of Leanna’s request for divorce, she had been the one manipulating the

situation—including lying about the second pregnancy. She must have predicted

accurately that he would be angered by that, so she had purposely done that to provoke

him. She knew him very well and this was evident by the moves she made. That was also

why she got what she wanted and she succeeded in gaining a divorce.

Oscar was confused. "Isn't this great for you? She wasn't after your money and she didn't

scheme for anything else other than getting a divorce."

Aidan snorted, "When she needed money, she tried her best to trap me into a marriage.

Now that she no longer needs me, she did everything she could to get a divorce. I'm just

like an idiot who was tricked repeatedly by her." There's no other woman on earth as

despicable as Leanna.

Oscar racked his brain as he considered the situation. Finally, he came up with a fairly

neutral opinion, "Why don't you pursue her once more, and after restoring the marriage

and allowing her to experience some sweet moments, ask for another divorce. That's the

easiest way to get back at her."

As soon as Aidan heard the words 'restore the marriage', he swallowed a lump in his throat

involuntarily and tightened his grip on his glass of drink. He found the suggestion to be

plausible.

He grunted an approval, "She deserves that."

As for Oscar, he thought, What?! I was just cracking a joke. Did he take it seriously?!?

As the drunken Aidan arrived home at Castor Villa, his servant noticed his condition and

quickly went to prepare a drink for his hangover cure. However, the servant opened the

cupboard and realized that there was none left.

The servant then revealed the bad news to Aidan, but he was unperturbed. He remained

seated on the couch with a finger pressed in between his eyes. Subsequently, he spoke up

calmly, "Give her a call."

Two minutes later, Leanna received a phone call from Castor Villa.

"Mrs. Pearson, we've run out of the drink to cure hangovers…"

Leanna pursed her lips and corrected her nicely, "Aidan and I are divorced, so please stop

addressing me as Mrs. Pearson. I'm no longer in charge of his hangover cure."

The servant replied awkwardly, "But then… Mr. Pearson said that the drink you bought is

very effective and the others don't work for him."

Suppressing her temper, she took a deep breath.

Of course, it's effective! I brewed it personally! That b*stard scoffed at it previously, didn't

he? Oh, now, he finally realizes how magically effective it is!?

After Leanna calmed down, she took into consideration that they had gone through an

amicable divorce after all, therefore, she gave the servant the entire ingredient list and

procedures to make her homemade hangover cure. However, before she could finish her

instruction, someone grabbed the phone away.

Subsequently, Aidan's cold and hoarse voice rang out, "Leanna, you seem to have

forgotten something."

Forgotten to kill you off before committing suicide?

He continued his sentence slowly, "I've got an IOU here from you for the two million you

owe me."

At that point, Leanna was rendered speechless for at least three minutes.

On the other end of the line, Aidan waited patiently for three minutes too.

"I'll prepare the drink right away and send it over. Wait for me."

After she had said that, she hung up the phone instantly and plopped herself onto her bed.

She had nearly forgotten that matter.

Three years ago, after marrying Aidan, she had finally mustered up the courage and asked

him for a loan. At that point, Jethro's debt from the loan sharks had reached an

astronomical figure of two million due to the compounding interest.