Love’s Change of Heart novel Chapter 389

Leanna sat in the lounge for half an hour, scrolling through the news on her phone the whole time. Unfortunately, the situation had taken a turn for the worse, with many claiming to be designers stepping forward to demand a reasonable explanation. It was also highly suspicious that not one of the designers who participated in the competition before this made a scene at all.

Clearly, these people were bribed by someone to blow up this matter on purpose. She only switched off her phone when her eyes started burning due to the strain.

Another thirty minutes passed, and the footsteps echoed from the door. Leanna sprang to her feet, but the one who came in was Jonathan instead.

"Miss McKinney, Old Mr. Pearson has asked for an emergency shareholders meeting right now, and I don't know when it will end," he said. "Why don't you return first?"

When she heard that, she was quiet for a few seconds before nodding softly. "Okay."

Staying here won't be of any help at all, she thought.

After Jonathan sent her downstairs, he returned into the building again in a rush. She turned her head around, stared at the brightly lit building, and knitted her brows. Then, suddenly, she knew what she had to do.

In the car, she whisked out her phone and found Freddie's number that she had saved previously. After he picked up the phone, she didn't bother beating around the bush, "Are you free? I would like to discuss something with you."

Freddie happened to be on the way. "Sure. Where are we meeting?"

Leanna asked for his location and chose a coffee house nearby. After ten minutes, she literally got out of the car at the same time as him.

He raised his brows when he saw her. There was no need for her to say the purpose behind her invitation; he knew why she requested for a meeting.

When they were comfortably seated in the coffee house, he asked, "I saw the news. Are you planning to sue the people for slander? But this matter is such a big commotion now, so I reckon that it won't have much effect."

To his surprise, she shook her head. "I just want to ask you how things are going with Georgina's case."

He was taken aback as he probably didn't expect her to ask about this and only answered after a pause, "Lloyd is still trying to hold this off, but don't worry. At the most, in less than a week, I can—"

"Tonight."

Freddie thought he had misheard her for a moment and clarified, "What?"

Leanna aligned her plans. "Tonight, send a lawyer's letter to Georgina directly using Karen's name. It's okay for the other details to be vague, but you have to point out that Karen went to my studio to make a scene under Georgina's orders and tried to harm my brother when he was only a student."

He immediately got what she meant. Previously, the Crossley Group had some trouble because of issues with the project. Nevertheless, if one pointed out that Georgina had done something so malicious and even tried to destroy a university student through filthy means, it would cause quite a commotion amongst the public.

"Do you plan to use this as a diversion?"

Leanna nodded. "That's only one part of it. One week is too long, long enough for Lloyd to make other preparations. This is the only way to catch him off guard."

"If we do this, he'll definitely know that you have something to do with this."

A chuckle escaped her lips. "I've been an eyesore to him since the beginning. Even if I don't do any of this, will he treat me with kindness?"

She has a point, Freddie thought. To pit against a wily old fox like Lloyd, she might as well just beg for mercy on her knees if she has so many concerns and is afraid of offending him.

"Okay, I'll return to my office right now." He checked the time and said, "It will take at least an hour for the letter to be out. Is that okay?"

"That's fine." Leanna rose to her feet. "Thank you."

"You're welcome. This is my job," he said and quickly departed, not staying for even a second longer as his mind whirled with possibilities.

On the other hand, Leanna didn't leave. Instead, she took a sip of her coffee and made a phone call to Lewis.

In the meantime, Lewis was utterly bewildered due to this incident, but the number of angry netizens was so high that it wouldn't help at all if they issued a clarification at this time. Also, they couldn't come up with any evidence to prove that the truth wasn't how it was depicted on the Internet.

This was the kind of situation where one had to think of a way to prove that they were themselves, and these rumors were ridiculous and unreasonable.

When he received Leanna's call, he immediately explained, "McK, we're discussing how we should deal with this issue. Rest assured, we'll give everyone a reasonable explanation."

"I'm the one who has dragged you down with me this time, and I'm calling now to ask who were the people who joined us for dinner that day," Leanna said.

Her words got Lewis by surprise. "You're saying that this recording may be recorded and leaked out by someone at the table that day?"

"No." After she thought it over, she rephrased her question, "Among the judges that went for the dinner that day, there shouldn't be anyone who gave me a low score, right?"

When she put it this way, he carefully thought about the situation that day.

After the final results came out, Robert and Queenie invited all the judges to dinner, but a few of them came up with an excuse and didn't bother showing up. The ones who attended after that, besides him and Robert, there were two other judges. The judges who voted for Leanna weren't there.

What coincidence is this? he asked himself.

When she heard the silence from the other end, she already knew the answer, and she explained, "Imagine you're a judge and gave a high score to the work you like. However, that didn't win in the end, but another one did. Will you attend the dinner party organized by the designer who won the competition?"

Lewis paused at her question. If that were him, he wouldn't bother attending.

On the one hand, it would be awkward because he didn't give a high score. But, on the other hand, he would more or less feel sorry for the talented designer who could have won but lost instead.

That time when Leanna didn't get first place, he thought it was highly unusual. Queenie's design was good, and she had her highlights, too. But, despite that, her design was one level beneath Leanna's in every aspect.

Besides, he showed up at that dinner because he was the organizer of the competition. So no matter who the winner was, he had to congratulate them.

At the thought of this, he suddenly found the road beyond the fog.

At the same time, Leanna managed to verify her questions, and she didn't even have to doubt the person who gave this recording to the media because there were only that many people in the hotel that day.

She knew very well what kind of person Queenie was.

If she thought that it was normal for there to be a winner and losers in a competition, then this incident was enough to prove that Queenie didn't deserve her title as the champion. Because of this, she feared someone would take away her chance to be the champion.

In other words, if Queenie were worthy of her title as the champion, there wouldn't be so many problems in the aftermath of the competition.

"I'll look into this carefully and give you an explanation as soon as possible," Lewis said gravely.