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Chapter 22 His Child Is...Alive?!

Author: BELLA
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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.

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 p*ss Gabriel’s mind, caused a storm of emotions to unleash inside, the strongest ones present being anger and confusion.

For so
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