I'm Sorry My Love Novel
Chapter 23

Chapter 23

Chapter 23 Do You Think I’m Cracking a Joke? Leanna held an IOU in her hand as she knocked on thedoor to his study room gingerly. Subsequently, she insisted repeatedly that she would definitely replace away to repay the money she owed him. Throughout the entire process, Aidan stared at her coldly with ahint of mockery and disdain in his eyes.

During that period, she had been practically bedridden every day as he left marks all over her bodyrevengefully. After he finally gave her the money, he did not mask his contempt at all as he said, “Youdon’t have to repay me. I thought that was the main purpose of you scheming so hard to marry me?” Ofcourse, she did not respond to that. It’s all thanks to that entrepreneur who criticized me for not havingany goals. It’s quite true that I don’t have the money to repay him right now. It was one thing for Aidanto state that she was exempted from repaying him the money, but she insisted on leaving the IOU withhim. It does make sense for him to seek repayment from me after our divorce. Zoe was happilycatching up on a TV series in her room when she suddenly heard clanging noises in the kitchen.

Zoe went over and asked, “Sweetie, what are you chopping up there?” “Aidan!” “Huh?” Leanna glancedat the piece of ginger in smithereens before her and finally, she regained her senses. “It’s no big deal.I’m heading out later, so don’t wait up for me. You should go to bed early.” Zoe knew without eventaking a guess that it was Aidan causing trouble for Leanna. With a frown, she asked, “What does heintend to do again? You guys are divorced, so why can’t he just leave you alone?!” “Forget about it. Iowe it to him in the first place.” “Well, it might be fine right now, but it won’t be when your baby bumpshows up in two months. You wouldn’t be able to hide things by then.” Leanna held a knife in her handand left it suspended in mid-air without any words coming out from her mouth. Yeah.

The two million debt hasn’t been paid off, so I would be indebted to him the entire time until I pay it off. Iwouldn’t be able to get away from him. Judging by Aidan’s personality, if he realized that she waspregnant, there was a high chance that she might be escorted to the operation table by force just toavoid the same situation as before; he did not want the child to be used as a guilty weapon against him

in exchange for another marriage. After quite some time, Leanna finally responded, “I’ll sort everythingout with him tonight.” One hour later, she arrived at Castor Villa. As soon as the doorbell sounded, theservant, who had been waiting perilously for her arrival, instantly rushed to open the door.

The relieved smile froze on her face as soon as she saw the person standing at the door. Aidan walkeddown the stairs to see the servant lead a young man holding a thermos flask into the room. Needless tosay, Aidan’s expression had turned ashen. The man was clearly in shock by the tense atmosphere andhe spoke with a stammer, “E-Excuse me… Are you Mr. Pearson? This is a delivery order from MissMcKinney. There should be a delivery code sent to your phone number. C-Could I have that codeplease?”

Aidan was silent as he pursed his thin lips, trying hard to suppress his anger while reaching for hisphone. As soon as the young man obtained the code, he swiftly fled the scene subsequently. Less thantwo minutes after the young man left, the landline to Castor Villa went off. The servant heard the phonego off, but she did not dare to answer it. Instead, she came up with an excuse and left the scene. Thephone went off repeatedly until it was nearly cut off and Aidan finally answered it then. Soon, Leanna’svoice rang out, “President Pearson, have you received the drink? I didn’t have enough ingredients, so Imade one batch for you.

If you need more of it, then I’ll make another batch and send it over to you via delivery services.” Shepaused before continuing, “As for the two million I owe you, can we discuss this matter further?” Hesneered coldly. “Discuss the matter? Is this how you show your sincerity?” Knowing his personality, sheknew that he must be annoyed because she had sent the drink to him via delivery services, but Zoewas right. It was fine at the moment for her to deliver it to him, but after two to three months, what wasshe to do if he persisted in pestering her? As such, rather than coming up with an excuse further downthe road, she might as well set the boundaries from the start. She replied, “I’m sorry, but it’s quite lateat night.

I’m a pretty young woman after all, so it would be dangerous for me to be out and about at this time ofthe night. Anyway, you’ve received the drink and it will deliver the same effect.” He was speechless fora moment before he responded, “Leanna, since when have you become so shameless?” “Plenty ofpeople seem to think so too. This is not news to me.” At that point, Aidan stopped talking. Realizing thathe had yet to hang up the phone on her, Leanna took the chance and mentioned probingly, “I’ve gotsome money right now. I can pay you back a portion of the total amount first and the remainder byinstallment.

How does that sound?” “Do I look like a bank?” She knew that it was not going to be easy to convincehim. “Then, what would you prefer?” “Pay me back the lump sum.” “I…” Before she could finish hersentence, Aidan spoke calmly, “Or perhaps, you can come over every day to cook for me and tidy theplace up from now on until you clear the debt.” She paused for a moment before asking, “How much isa day’s work worth?” “That would be one hundred thousand per month.” “President Pearson, are yousure that you want to do this? This isn’t a fair deal for you.” He snorted in response and thought, She’sfinally found her conscience. She continued, “All the chores that you mentioned were chores that I didevery day since our marriage; so, if I get one hundred thousand per month, then I would be entitled toone point two million each year.

The total I would get for three years is three point six million, so you would still owe me one point sixmillion.” At that point, he was at a loss for words. However, before he jumped to the wrong conclusion,she quickly added, “I’m not asking for one point six million from you by saying all this. I’m just tallyingthings up, that’s all. You don’t have to pay me anything. Let’s just consider that everything’s settledbetween the two of us.” She reckoned that she had sorted out everything logically and perfectly.However, he responded in a calm voice, “Leanna, do you think I’m cracking a joke?” “I’m sorry, but Ithought you were being very serious about this here.” We’ve divorced and yet he wants me to go backand serve him every day?!

If this isn’t a joke, then he must be out of his mind. On the other end, he remained silent for severalseconds before speaking up once again, “I expect payment within the next month and I don’t acceptpayment by installment.” She responded, “Okay.” He hung up the phone as soon as he heard her reply.Where can she get that amount of money within a month? By then, she would naturally have to comeback to me, begging on her knees. … Lately, Gordon had gotten word somewhere that Aidan andLeanna had divorced. After phoning Aidan up several times to ask about it to no avail, Gordonredirected his sights on Mia. After further investigation, he realized that Mia was not pregnant at all.

Though slightly disappointed and ceased action for several days, he started to replace an excuse to makeAidan come home in order to arrange another marriage for him. Due to that, Aidan was frustratedbeyond words. Hence, he went on consecutive business trips to several cities just to be away fromHighside for nearly half a month. After he disembarked from the flight, he pressed in between his browsand mentioned naturally, “Store the presents in my luggage into paper bags and replace some time to sendit over to Leanna.” As soon as he said that, Jonathan froze and replied awkwardly, “President Pearson,you’ve divorced Mrs. Pearson…”

Jonathan had held the position of Aidan’s personal assistant for many years now and he clearly knewthat Aidan would always have the habit of buying presents for Leanna no matter where he went for thepast three years. However, Aidan never handed it over to Leanna in person because he claimed thatshe was too schemeful to receive anything from him. If he was to treat her slightly better than usual,then she would think that she could take advantage of him and get ahead of herself. Pretending tobelieve Aidan’s ridiculous excuse, Jonathan brought home the expensive gifts and unwrapped theoriginal packaging before rewrapping them with the usual store-bought packaging. The final step wouldbe to hand them over to Leanna when he met her.