"Gone, all of it." Placing the batch of information he had gathered over the past few hours on the table, Bill stepped back, giving his employer enough room to survey the different papers sprawled across his table.Footage details, Missing medical records, tampered medical documents, you name it. And each piece of paper in front of him, seemed to confuse Gabriel. Firstly, the security footage from Stellar's birthday party. It was gone, deleted obviously from the looks of it. And then moving on to the missing medical records, Angelina's medical records to be precises. Just around the time Gabriel had called Bill with the situation of the security footage, the *ssistant had been wrapping up his work at the central hospital, trying to get Angelina's records like his boss had requested. However, just like with the CCTV footage, he ended up with nothing other than a blank slate. The medical records had disappeared like they never existed in the first place.And then lastly, the evidence th
Staring at the pale female in front of her, who looked anything but good. Leonica was stuck in between a cross road. First road; Ignore the vampiric witch and go on her merry way, committing her wellbeing and whatever happened to her into the hands of God. Or, second road; be the higher person, the bigger person and offer her some help.A few seconds of being unnoticed went by before Leonica sighed, her decision already been made.As much as she'd want to go on the first road, bliss and all to her day, she couldn't bring herself to leave Angelina the way she was look. Not because she was nice or cared about the witch, F*ck no!The answer was simple. Her unborn child. Just like her, Angelina was or rather, was going to become a mother sooner or later and leaving her this way set the perfect stage for a miscarriage, resulting in an innocent life at stake.Saint or not, she couldn't stand by and watch a innocent life of an unborn child be put at risk. No matter the animosity she had towa
The entire of three days had p*ssed before Ashley had been discharged from the hospital. Having the strings and wires upon wires detached from his arms and bandages unwrapped from his forehead felt like a whole new level of bliss and freedom combined."Alright, that should wrap it up." Doctor Bailey concluded, dropping the last of Ashley's used bandage into the awaiting tray of his *ssistant nurse.Ashley nearly squeaked with joy, nearly. But he didn't. Holding himself back, he jumped off his hospital bed, landing on his feet and charging at his parents the very next second. Leonica happily caught him, swooping him up into her arms."Mommy, I'm free!"Chuckling at his excitement, Leonica kissed his forehead. "That's right. Congratulations.""Congrats Champ." Gabriel gently patted the child's head from where he stood on the side.Ashley giggled happily at the gesture and moment overall. Having both his mother and father with him was one of the best wishes he could ask for. And he got i
Simple and friendly talk.Leonica nearly chuckled at the misleading words.If someone other than her had heard those words, they would have pegged she and Angelina for best friends, or close friends at least. But oh, how far from that they were.“Ha, you sure do got some balls,” Leonica spat into the phone. “Calling my line just to tell me some crap *ss bullsh*t after all the stunts you’ve pulled. And what, you believe I'd easily waltz right into where you want me. Big imagination you’ve got there.”“Oh Leonica,” Angelina sighed, having expected this exact attitude from Leonica. At the other end, accompanied by her silver-sounding sigh was the clicking sound of cutlery. Leonica didn’t want to imagine the witch spilling on a cup of calming tea as she utter her ridiculous words, but it was already too late. Her mind had created the picture in her head, causing her to cringe.Both mentally and physically.“I knew you’d be like this, and trust me, really, trust me, I didn’t want to have t
“What?” Leonica’s face was the mirror of her emotions.Confused, utterly confused, yet curious.What had Angelina said to Gabriel five years ago that caused their divorce? That was an answer she had thought of...craved for the first two years of her being in Colorado. But as time went on, it was safe to say she began to move on, meeting new people and making new memories. Memories that overshadowed the painful ones she no longer wanted to remember.Thankfully, after three years of living in Colorado, warmly welcomed by her new neighborhood, Leonica stopped craving answers to that one question that haunted her. And soon, she completely forgot it.That was until today.“Do I want to know?” She uttered, watching as Angelina nodded her head, brunette ponytail bouncing around at the gesture.Unsurprisingly, her past self would have jumped at the opportunity. But currently as she is, that answer no longer mattered to her.The past is the past and she refused to continue living in it.Shakin
The next few seconds after that, played out in a slow and soundless motion in Leonica’s mind.On the floor, Angelina’s mouth was wide open, possibly wailing in pain, yet the white-Ette couldn’t seem to hear any sound as her mind tried to think up the fastest escape route for the obvious ploy Angelina had dragged her into. Her eyes on the other hand, were mostly trained on Gabriel who was approaching them with an expression that screamed panic, instead of the female on the floor in obvious pain.Gabriel was by her side in seconds and his eyes met Leonica's, but only for a split second, before he looked back at his bleeding fiancée on the floor.“Argh! It hurts! Someone please...help me!” Angelina’s voice faded in, snapping Leonica’s attention towards her.Her eyes widened upon seeing the stream of crimson that was pooling behind her, tainting her lovely blue spring gown. Gabriel soon spotted the red pool, and just like Leonica, his eyes grew wide. But unlike her, he did not remain in o
“Just because I Chose to keep quiet, doesn’t mean you should take me for a fool, Angelina.”“What...what do you mean?” The brunette stuttered. Gabriel’s earlier words had knocked some of her missing sense back into her, returning her attitude to the calm, meek and weak damsel Gabriel knew her once to be. “I’d never take you for a fool, Gabriel. I love you.”“Yeah? And I'm supposed to believe that?” Reaching into the pocket of his leather jacket, Gabriel fished out his phone whilst asking.“Do you doubt it?” The female questioned back.Not answering her question immediately, Gabriel tinkered with his phone for a few seconds, a minute at most, before he tossed it into her lap. “Nowadays, I really do doubt that.”Looking down at the phone, Angelina became speechless at the video that was playing.It was surveillance footage from the night of Stellar’s birthday party, showing that Leonica had been the one who stepped into the room. And the later part, early in the morning, showed the very
“Just go home, please.”Seated in front of her room vanity mirror, Gabriel’s words replayed in Leonica’s head like a haunting tape.For some reason, she couldn’t get it out of her head. Perhaps it had been his tone? Or the anger that she had expected to come, more than prepared herself to receive, but never did? Or perhaps was it the expression on his face?Or all three of them?Whichever it was, it haunted her mind over and over again, throughout the entire freaking day.Heaving a sigh, she pulled off the last of her jewelry and looked in the mirror just in time to see Ashley poking his head through the threshold of her door.“Mommy?” He called out in a small voice, testing his mother’s mood as he had stood by her door for nearly ten minutes, observing as her mood deteriorated every now and now, and only ever growing the guts to call out to her when he felt his eye lids getting really heavy.Putting on her best smile to mask her inner troubles, Leonica turned around in her chair. “He