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With Mouth hanging open and eyes widening far beyond their capacity, Gabriel watched the scene in front of him play out like a sitcom.
Except it wasn’t some channel television, it was real.
Leonica was a mother.
“Why did you leave the doctor’s appointment, Ash?” Leonica, despite the scolding tone she had, pecked the young bow on his forehead. Are you aware of how worried mommy was?” She asked, loud enough for Gabriel to hear, Indeed confirming his thoughts.
That child belonged to Leonica…
But hadn’t she said that she had aborted the baby five years ago?
So whose child was this?
Someone else’s?
Not possible. The Boy, Ash as she had called him, had referred to her as his mother and she to herself as his mother.
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So it was clear to him that This boy, Ash, was her child, so did that mean…she had another child with another
man?
The thought, as unusual as it was to pass Gabriel’s mind, caused a storm of emotions to unleash inside, the strongest ones present being anger and confusion.
For some reason, just like when he had gotten home and learnt of her disappearance five years ago, Gabriel refused to accept the situation as it was.
Unlike five years ago, he needed answers. And answers he was going to get.
Placing one foot forward, Gabriel had taken a defining step, mind set on confronting Leonica, when he
suddenly felt a hand latch onto his upper arm from behind.
Instantly, he whipped his head around, freezing the moment his eyes met with Angelina’s own.
“Gabe, there you are. What took you so long?” She questioned innocently, tilting her head and body weight, which was being supposed by a crutch, to the side.
Ceeing her face the make renalled the ranaan uhu ho
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had visited the hospital in the first place, foregoing it after having ran into the child.
“Were you lost?” She questioned his silence. “Well that’s fine, I’m here now. Let’s go to my room.” She
offered.
Gabriel was reluctant. No matter how much he tried to
not let it show, it was clear on his face that instead of going with his finacèè, he’d much rather stay her and question his ex wife from five years ago.
Angelina sensed this, thought not sure what was bringing about this new reluctance of his, she did not
like it.
Gabriel’s attention was hers and hers alone. There was
no room for reluctance even if it was business related.
It had been that way up until now and she wasn’t going to allow that change.
Taking a step forward, the brunette pretended to slip on her crutches, nearly crashing into Gabriel. Fortunately, he caught her, steading her balance.
“I’m sorry,” She apologized sheepishly, tugging the fallen locks of her hair behind her ears. “My leg hasn’t fully healed vet. Standing for too long like this. isn’t
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really wise. Come on Gabe, let’s go back to my room.” She grabbed onto his hand and began to pull him away, somewhat limping in her every step.
Gabriel pressed his lips together. He wanted to break out of Angelina’s hold and rush towards Leonica, but that would clearly make him look like an unloyal fiance.
And Leonica, wasn’t worth that type of stress.
But that didn’t mean he was giving up on confronting her. She owed him an explanation and he was going to come back and get one.
“I’m sorry for worrying you, mommy,” Ashley
apologized, lips turned downwards. “The needles…they looked really scary.” He admitted, although not too proud of his actions.
“My prince was really scared off by needles?”
Ashely nodded his head. “They all looked so scary. I had to run, but I ended up getting separated from my nanny.” He continued to explain.
Leonica was just about to comfort her son, rather than scolding him any longer, when the boy suddenly
perked un gloomy aura completely gone.
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“But then Kind Uncle helped me.” He announced.
Leonica blinked her eyes in confusion. “K–kind Uncle?”
“Yeah, he’s right there!” Ashely pointed towards where he had left the man that was with him.
However, when they both looked back, the bench and it’s surroundings was empty.
“Huh? Where did he go?” Ashely questioned, craning
his neck in different directions.
“Who were you talking about, Ashely?” His mother
asked.
“Kind Uncle,” The kid repeated. “He found me after I had lost the nanny and waited with me until you came. He was here just a few seconds ago.”
“Ashely,” Leonica called out in a serious tone. “What did I warn you about trusting strangers?”
“Well…I…” He tried to defend his earlier action. Alas he settles for the only thing that came to his mind even when aware that it wouldn’t prevent his mother’s scolding. “Well he wasn’t driving an ice cream truck. Neither did he offer me candy!”
Leonica pinched the bridge of her nose with her free.
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hand and sighed.
“Ashely, you still shouldn’t have trusted him.”
“But he wasn’t a clown, didn’t have an ice scream truck
and wasn’t offering me candy”
“But he was still a stranger, wasn’t he?” Leonica deadpanned.
Ashely opened his mouth to defend, however he saw no reasoning that could counter the warning his mother had given him.
In the end, he settled on a simple request, stirring some of the conversation’s direction in the process.
“Can we at least look for kind Uncle and thank him?”
He questioned.
Leonica sighed, about to shake her head. “Ash-”
“Please. Please mommy. Please~” He begged, finger laced together and lips turned downwards with sparkling eyes.
He was showing the puppy dog expression. A face that he was fully aware his mother couldn’t resist and was using it to his full advantage.
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Just like he had predicted, Leonica couldn’t bring herself to say no. But, just when she was about to give in, her phone began to ring.
“Hold on Ash,” She reached for the device, swiping on the answer Icon after confirming that it was Anastasia who had been calling. “Hey Annie, what’s up?”
“The preparations back at Ashley’s school has been sorted out. Could you tell the nanny to bring him over if they’re done with the medical check up?”
“As a matter of fact, I’m at the hospital, with Ashely. Not the nanny.”
From the other end, Anastasia sighed. In the short space of a week and a half since Leonica had returned, she had gotten to know that Ashely was a mischievous sould despite his innocent appearance.
And from the words of her best friend, she could already tell that Ashely had taken one look at the hospital’s injection needle and turned into Scooby.
“Expected as much.” She muttered. “You know what, forget the medical checkup. I’ll handle that here, how about you both come and do some final check ups, yeah?”
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“Alright. We’re coming.” Leonica said and hung up.
Turning her face to Ashely’s, she pressed her lips into a thin line. “Ash, we gotta leave. Let’s find kind Uncle some other time, okay?”
The kid glanced back In the direction he had left said Kind uncle and although he didn’t like the idea of leaving without saying ‘thank you‘ he didn’t want to mess up his school preparations.
Deciding for the best, he nodded his head to his
mother’s words.
Leonica smiled. “Nice. Let’s go now.” Her words were heard by the men, body guards to be precise, who had
come with her.
Immediately, they turned around, leading her towards
the exit.
However, with each step Leonica took, she couldn’t help but look over her shoulder, feeling as if she had perhaps missed something important.
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