Love’s Change of Heart novel Chapter 364

After returning to her office, Leanna was greeted by a lady who came running to her before she could even sit down. She then whispered secretively in her ear, asking, "Are you available at the moment, Miss McKinney?"

"Nope. Why?"

The lady spoke in an even softer voice, "The handsome man from next door came by just now and left a message. He wanted me to tell you to meet him, but you mustn't let Zoe know about it."

"What is it that I can't know?"

She was frightened by the voice as she turned around and saw Zoe's face just right beside hers. Thus, she chuckled awkwardly in an attempt to play it off. "N-Nothing." Struggling to talk her way out of this, the lady saw no reason for her to continue sticking around, so she quickly brushed Zoe off with an excuse and fled the scene.

Then, Zoe leaned on the desk and asked, "What were you ladies talking about? You two were acting like spies."

Nonetheless, Leanna reacted with a smile and said, "It was really nothing. It was just that…" Daniel wants to see me. Believing it was the words that Zoe said earlier, Leanna surmised that was the reason Daniel avoided them when he came over to leave her a message.

In the meantime, Zoe was not entirely unaware of what was going on, having seen an employee from the next door talking to the lady outside earlier. However, she went on to stretch herself and said, "I'm going to take a cat nap at the back. Holler at me if you need anything."

"Sure." Leanna put down her belongings and left her office not long after Zoe walked away.

Meanwhile, Daniel was sitting in front of his piano, pausing what he was doing, when he saw Leanna arrive. He then shot a gaze at the other employees beside him before they sensibly walked out the door.

"I heard you wanted to see me. What's it about?" Leanna asked.

He closed the keyboard cover and replied, "Lloyd is the legal advisor of Crossley Group, and I believe he just gave you the equity transfer agreement, didn't he?"

Leanna nodded, knowing that Daniel had been keeping his eyes on Crossley Group, which was why she didn't find the man's question surprising at all.

"What do you have in mind?"

"I approached a lawyer to go through the agreement earlier today. Nothing seems to be wrong."

Daniel stood up and replied, "Well, that's precisely why it seems fishy. Don't you think so?" While Leanna remained silent and waited for him to continue, Daniel went on and added, "Previously, Georgina came to me for help in investigating the matter that happened twenty years ago but judging from her words, I believe she is trying to drag you into the mess amidst Crossley Group."

"Me?"

"Miss McKinney, once you sign the agreement, the Crossley Group's interest will matter as much as yours will, which means you're going to be in trouble should anything happen to the company. In fact, you may even…" Be used as a scapegoat. When she heard Daniel's speculation, Leanna didn't seem to be surprised, knowing Lloyd and believing it wasn't his first time doing that. Soon, Daniel added, "Therefore, you mustn't sign the agreement, Miss McKinney."

A few moments later, Leanna replied, "However, I'll be given the power to vote in the Crossley Group if I sign the agreement, right? That means I have the right to go through every project that the company is going to engage in and even hear about any insider info."

"You're right, but that's just too dangerous."

"Well, someone's gotta do it, no matter how dangerous it may be." She brushed it off with a chuckle.

"What do you mean, Miss McKinney…?" Daniel was stunned.

"I'll think about your suggestion. If signing the agreement is going to bring more good than harm, I wouldn't mind taking my chances." Deep down, Leanna saw this as an opportunity to gather the evidence she needed after she failed to do so despite having lived with the Crossley Family for a while. This is going to have to work because there will be no turning back for me once I sign that paper.

He puckered his lips, seemingly wanting to say something, just when Leanna's phone rang. She then glimpsed her phone and saw an incoming call. "Thank you for your kind intention, Mr. Daniel. I promise I'll think carefully before I act. I will not let my impulse get the better of me." As soon as she finished her words, she turned around and walked away.

The next moment, Daniel stepped forward in an attempt to catch up with Leanna, only to be stopped by the other employees who had been waiting outside earlier. "There is someone watching outside." They responded with a soft voice. Stunned upon learning that, Daniel decided to retreat to the store without saying anything. He then peeked through the glass window and saw a black Jetta. As soon as Leanna disappeared from sight, her stalkers hit the road and drove off. At the sight of what he just saw, Daniel couldn't help but frown out of concern. I can't believe Lloyd is onto me now.

In the meantime, Leanna went back to her office and returned the missed call. A few seconds later, she heard a man's magnetic voice from the other side of her phone. "Are you busy now?"

"Not really. I was just in the middle of something."

"I heard you met up with Freddie," Aidan said.

"Yeah, he said he would help me with my divorce settlement in court."

Aidan was speechless upon hearing the lady's words just as Freddie, who was in his office, felt chills running down his spine and sneezed. A few moments later, Aidan asked, "What time are you going to leave work?"

Leanna glimpsed the drafts on her desk and answered, "I don't know. It depends, I guess."

"I have a meeting later, and I'll come over once I'm done. If you're not in a hurry, why don't you bear with me for a bit?"

"Sure," she responded with a deep voice. After hanging up the call, she turned on her laptop and spent a few minutes collecting her thoughts before she continued with her work. Although she was given ten days to complete her work, she still had a lot to amend, feeling worried as it was already her third day.

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On the other hand, Lloyd was in his residence, where he chuckled gleefully upon hearing his subordinates' reports. "I knew he was up to something." Although his men didn't manage to listen in on the conversation between Daniel and Leanna, he couldn't help but find it fishy for the two of them to meet up just after the day he gave Leanna the equity transfer agreement. After all, it all seemed too much of a coincidence to him.

As for Daniel, Lloyd still had not found anything substantial about the mysterious man's background. However, he was sure that Daniel had a hidden agenda because the latter was just a musician, who should have left Highside sooner after his tour concert in that region was done. But instead, he stuck around and even showed up in places he shouldn't have in the past few days. At the thought of that, Lloyd suddenly asked, "Did you just say he lived next door to Leanna's place?"

"Yeah, he moved in right before his tour concert."

Lloyd knitted his eyebrows. "Well, why did he have to rent since he was just here for a tour concert? Unless—he was using his concert as a front."

"He seems to be closely associated with Constellation Tech. Would you like us to do a little digging about Elijah, Mr. Crossley?"

"No need for that," Lloyd replied. Deep down, he had known that Elijah's father was Mr. Jackson's schoolmate even without conducting any investigation. Daniel, Elijah, Mr. Jackson, and Leanna. They are only brought together because of one thing. Lloyd squinted, his eyes filled with indifference. Thinking all four of them had made their moves, he believed they were all motivated by the same incident that happened twenty years ago, although he wasn't sure how much they knew about it. After all, there was no one else besides them who would make a move against him for the same reason. Well, that's better still because I can now take them all down once and for all.