His Domineering Lover

"I don't think it's necessary," Aleigha said with a faint smile. She raised her brows and looked behind the man.

Adrian stood behind the man, his tall body overshadowing the shabbily dressed man.

The man looked back, and his legs instantly went numb as he knelt on the ground.

Adrian's deep eyes flashed with a cold light, giving the man goosebumps all over.

"Take him away."

Adrian couldn't be bothered to waste any more time on this kind of person so he simply gave his men the order.

"I'll be needing him shortly, you can keep him under your watch for the time being. Thanks."

"And this is the report, you can take a look."

Aleigha took out the report from her bag. Before she could hand it over, she was pulled into Adrian's embrace.

"You'd be lying in a small box in a morgue by now if this f*cker had a little more guts!" "Aleigha, don't make me worry, okay?" Aleigha was stunned, and the warmth in her heart spread all over her body in an instant.

She could not help but smile. "I'm fine. And I know how to protect myself, alright? Don't worry."

"How could I not worry?"

Aleigha's nose twitched all of a sudden. Was Adrian worried about losing her?

"I'm fine, aren't I?" Aleigha comforted him in a gentle voice.

Adrian didn't say anything and could only hug her even tighter.

When the two of them returned to the company, Adrian did not check on the report immediately. Instead, he took a nap with Aleigha in his arms.

Waking up feeling hungry, the two of them went to a restaurant nearby.

Not only after that did they go back to the company to work on the report.

Aleigha shallow was very attentive with her work but the marketing and sales methods were what Adrian would do in her previous life.

Naturally, Adrian was very satisfied after taking a look at it.

Aleigha felt a little guilty, but she had to get over it. She needed to strengthen herself too much.

In the evening, Aleigha was taken to the villa by Adrian and slept peacefully for the whole night. However, during the whole night.

Aleigha also made it clear that she only wanted Adrian to watch over that person for her, not interrogate him.

Adrian was woken up by a call from his elders in the family and was scolded, which was a result of Lainey's ridiculously brazen call to the Xiao family.

The canceling of the engagement was doomed to happen now that Adrian was so fed up with it.

When Aleigha went downstairs, she saw Adrian was angrily bellowing at his phone before he smashed the phone on the ground.

'Aleigha, did I scare you?" Adrian calmed down and looked at Aleigha, who had been standing at the corner of the stairs for quite some time.

Aleigha shrugged her shoulders and said with a smile, "I'm used to it."

Adrian's anger immediately disappeared when he heard these simple words.

"Come on, grab something to eat. I'm gonna have a meeting soon at the company."

Aleigha was very obedient. She allowed him to pull her to the dinner table and hold her on his lap.

Anyway, struggling was useless, so it was better to let him do as he wanted.

After breakfast, Adrian left and sent the driver to take Aleigha to the nearest street to the school.

Aleigha did not return to school. Instead, she went to Lennon.

Adrian could help her with anything, but Adrian didn't know she was a Gardner, whereas Lennon did and also could help her with everything she asked for. Lennon was not surprised by her arrival. In his eyes, Aleigha was such a girl.

Unless there was a problem that could not be solved, she would never come to trouble Lennon.

"Lennon, I feel like I'm quite the loser for coming to you again and again." Sitting opposite Lennon's desk, Aleigha said with an apologetic look on her face. Lennon chuckled and looked at Aleigha with a soft gaze. "It's my pleasure to be on your service."

Aleigha smiled helplessly. "I wanna go through the case file of a patient named Miranda Mccall in the Oasis General Hospital."

Lennon was slightly taken aback, but he did not ask any further questions. He made a call and waited for the reply.

Aleigha left Lennon's company. As soon as she entered the elevator, she saw a familiar face.

Darien!

Thinking about it, she did not find it too strange. Darien had an cooperation with the Landry family, so it was quite natural that he came to Landry's company. "Aleigha, it's been a while, huh?"

Aleigha was stunned. "You know me?"

Darien laughed lightly, his handsome face full of gentleness. "Of course I do. You did leave me with a deep impression at that banquet."

Aleigha pretended to be stunned, and then she looked as if she suddenly realized something. "Oh, you are Mr. Xiao, right?"

"How come you are here then?" Darien's tone was full of curiosity.

Aleigha smiled faintly and said, "I'm here to see a friend."

Darien did not ask any more questions, but his gaze remained fixed on Aleigha the entire time.

The elevator reached the ground floor.

"Miss Aleigha, where are you going? May I be so bold to ask you to join me for dinner?"

Darien's invitation was sincere.

"Thank you but no. I have something to do." Aleigha refused. Darien was Adrian's rival. She did not want to invite unnecessary trouble because of

this.

"Are you afraid of Adrian, my child of a cousin?" Darien laughed and looked at Aleigha with an even more scrutinized gaze.

Aleigha smiled awkwardly. She said goodbye and left hastily.

Lennon sent her a message in the afternoon and the two of them decided to meet at the Oasis General Hospital.

Aleigha arrived in advance and stood at the entrance of the hospital, shivering in the cold wind.

"You a Gardner?"

A stranger approached Aleigha.

Following the sound, she saw a middle-aged strange man clad in a long fur coat.

The man was tall and stalwart, looking rather handsomely sharp with the hard lines on his face, casting a sense of elegance with each step he took.

Aleigha nodded, not quite willing to be in a conversation with this abruptly approaching man.

"And what's Lainey to you?" The man looked at Aleigha as a shred of unconcealable surprise flashed across his eyes.

"My father's second wife, so I guess it makes her my stepmother as much as I don't like to admit it." Aleigha had always been reluctant about admitting such a fact.

After the man heard it, his eyes suddenly dimmed as if a certain light source was switched off somewhere inside him. "Aye, eh, I'm a... I'm sort of a friend to her and I've seen a photo of yours." Her photo? What the man side made the curiosity in Aleigha's heart surge even more violently.

"Do you have any siblings?" The man went on patiently, not seeming to mind the awkwardness of their exchange of words at all.

"A half-sister," Aleigha answered flatly.

Her words made the man overjoyed as he nodded nonstop. "Ah, alright, then, I... well, I have someplace to be, alright."

Aleigha was curious. Looking at his back as he left hastily, an inexplicably weird feeling rose up from her guts.

The feeling was telling her that something good was about to happen, judging from the thrilled expression that man had on his face.

Lennon was late for nearly half an hour, though, for which, unexpectedly, Aleigha showed no sign of displeasure.

They went directly to the hospital's archive. When the staff on duty heard that it was Lennon, they immediately left and let them investigate at will.

Before long, they came across Miranda's file from three years ago.

Having gone through it meticulously, they found nothing out of the ordinary with it yet that was precisely what made Aleigha firmly believe it had been tampered with. Thinking about the man she ran up to catch with, Aleigha's doubts deepened its root in her heart.