Love's Change of Heart

Queenie wos stortled. She turned oround ond her pupils widened, but she still didn't dore to move.

Justin smiled ond held his hond out to her.

Queenie stored ot his hond ond hesitoted for quite some time before gingerly holding his hond ond

getting bock to her feet.

At the some time, Gordon colled out in dissotisfoction, "Justin, not everyone deserves your kindness."

"There might be some kind of misunderstonding," Justin soid. "Didn't we find out thot o mon got the

reporter to sneok into the house?"

"He's probobly her occomplice!"

Justin turned to Queenie. "There's still time. Go oheod ond tell us whot hoppened. Don't worry. We

won't moke things difficult for you if you're not the one behind this."

Queenie stood beside Justin ond bit her lip. At lost, she soid, "I'm not the one who did it… I don't know

whot hoppened, I sweor…"

Gordon bonged his wolking stick on the floor ond roored, "You're still trying to weosel your woy out of it

even when the evidence is storing you in the foce!"

Queenie jumped in fright ond instinctively cowered behind Justin os she hurriedly defended herself. "It

hos nothing to do with me, but… I know thot guy who contocted the reporter. He… he hos…"

"He hos whot?"

"He hos been working for Leonno McKinney oll olong." Queenie become o lot more composed when

she mode her mind up to lie obout everything. "Also, he wos the one who took Leonno owoy from here

lost time. I don't know why you think he's my occomplice. I think it's becouse I offended Leonno during

the Designer Competition, so she's trying to toke revenge on me by moking these cloims…"

Gordon norrowed his eyes. He remoined silent for o moment.

There hod been o mon in the cor with Leonno when she left thot doy.

According to his investigation, that man didn't work for Aidan.

If this woman is telling the truth, then Leanna's the one who arranged for the reporter to sneak into the

house!

Who would've thought that even I would be tricked?

After mulling it over in silence, Gordon asked, "How do you explain the audio recorder then?"

His tone was a lot calmer this time.

Queenie clenched her jaw and decided to go all in. "It was… Miss Crossley who told me to do it."

Gordon frowned. "Miss Crossley? Which one?"

"Georgina Crossley of Crossley Group."

"How did you get to know her?"

Queenie balled her fists and explained, "I was a designer at Lux Jewelry, just like Leanna. At the time,

Miss Crossley wasn't engaged to President Pearson yet, but she already knew that Leanna was his ex-

wife, so she purposely befriended Leanna and often used me to help her plot against Leanna."

"Was Georgina the one behind the incident regarding the bribing of judges at the Designer

Competition?" Gordon asked.

"No. That was Violet Kramer's doing."

"Violet Kramer? Why is she involved?"

Queenie took a deep breath. "Violet was resentful of the fact that President Pearson rejected her. She

wanted to strike back at Leanna, so she bribed the judges and asked me to help her with this, but she

threw me under the bus and didn't care about the consequences I'd have to face, so I took the

recording to Miss Crossley. She's the one who told me that the only one who'd dare to offend President

Pearson now is you, Old Mr. Pearson. She told me to come and find you."

Since Queenie had no way out of this now after both Violet and Georgina threw her aside after using

her, she decided to take them down with her. If I'm screwed because of this, so must they be!

"What great schemers they all are," Gordon sneered.

"None of this would've happened if it hadn't been for the engagement," Justin commented slowly.

"From Georgina's perspective, she didn't do anything she shouldn't have."

"Why are you still standing up for her at a time like this? Don't you know what's become of us thanks to

her?"

"Aidan wouldn't be so ruthless if you had stopped before you went too far," Justin refuted.

Gordon snorted. "If I stopped before going too far? Don't forget how Leanna lost her child! Do you think

Aidan would've let bygones be bygones and let your mother off the hook?"

Justin kept quiet after that.

Gordon got up and walked toward the stairs. "Deal with it," he instructed his subordinate while passing

by.

Queenie stepped back in terror.

Justin raised his hand and stopped Gordon's men. He turned to Queenie and said, "I'll see you out."

Queenie eyed him nervously, but after noticing that the men had all retreated, her heart fell back in

place.

Justin wheeled himself out of the house and Queenie quickly followed after him.

Once they reached the garden, Queenie couldn't stop herself from saying, "Thank you."

"It's nothing," Justin replied curtly.

"You and President Pearson…"

"I'm his older brother."

Queenie was taken aback. "President Pearson has an older brother?"

The wheelchair came to a halt as soon as she said that.

Queenie turned around and instantly realized she had misspoken. "I'm so sorry. It's just that I have

never heard about it in the past…"

Justin stared at the morning sun in the distance with an indiscernible expression on his pale face.

Queenie stood beside him. She was too afraid to say anything.

After a while, Justin said to her, "You said that the person who took Leanna away that day was the one

who'd been helping her all along, right?"

Queenie was startled. She clutched her clothes and nodded.

"Are you acquainted with him?"

"J-Just a little. I'm not familiar with him."

Justin hummed in acknowledgment before turning to look at Queenie. "I suppose you know that

Leanna's miscarriage was due to the car accident. That man was the one driving the car."

"I'm not too sure," Queenie stammered.

"It's fine if you don't know about that," Justin said. "But can you tell me what that man's name is and

where he's staying right now?"

Queenie's lips parted but nothing came out.

She had a feeling that if she leaked Ron's information, this gentle-looking man in front of her would go

after him.

Justin chuckled. "You don't want to tell me?"

For some reason, even though the sun was already hanging high up in the sky, Queenie still felt a chill.

She quickly started spilling everything she knew about Ron.