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
A day had gone and despite Gabriel's audacious accusation, Leonica couldn't stop her Mary-Sue like mind from still pondering about Angelina wellbeing. Seated in her office, she flipped through yet another file with an absent mind, heaving a sigh at the end. Kennedy who was seated in a chair in the far corner of her office, nearly swallowed by the heap of files, generated from half of the work Leonica had unintentionally neglected over the days, glanced her way, instantly noticing the zoned-out look on her face.It was obvious that something was on her mind, and Kennedy, more than anyone, knew that the moment something plagued his employer's mind, she was either slow at work, got the work done, but however with several errors which he had to later on correct, or doesn't get any work done at all.A painful flaw in her almost perfect personality that she definitely had to work on fixing.After a moment of internal debate, whether to remain silent and bury his nose back into his work, or
“It didn’t belong to me,” Leonica knitted her brows at Gabriel’s outburst.What was he going on about now?what the h*ll didn’t belong to him?“What?”“The child Angelina had been carrying... it didn’t belong to me.” Gabriel repeated, more clearly this time around.Swallowing thick, he awaited Leonica’s reaction, surprised to see that she was looking surprised. Of course, she was! Heck, who wouldn’t be?After nearly a month of believing that Angelina was carrying his child, he suddenly spilled the beans, saying the child didn’t belong to him.How exactly does that work?“Why... why are you telling me this?” Leonica asked once she was able to shake the surprise off. “What do you hope to gain by doing this?”“I...” Gabriel began, only for the rest of his words to die on his tongue. He had no valid reason for telling her what he just did.In all honesty, it was a spur of the moment reaction to stop her from walking away. But obviously, Gabriel wasn’t going to admit that. But to himself a
April fools, that was what Angelina wished today was.But it wasn’t. Currently, it was May 3, April’s fool was far from over. So that meant everything little thing Gabriel was saying was not a prank.Tears began to pull in her eyes, and she snapped without holding back, yelling at the top of her lungs. “You... you don’t love me anymore? There’s no future for you and I? what the h*ll are you saying Gabriel?!”Gabriel remained quiet even though he had been addressed. He had prepared for something like this, her outrage and on flowing tears, so he wasn’t in the least bit moved.When Angelina noticed this, eyes locking onto his indifferent and unfazed ones, she felt a painful sting in her chest. It was the kind of pinch one felt once they had realized something painful that they had been trying to fight off. And for Angelina, her realization in this case, was that Gabriel’s words were true.He wasn’t lying to get rid of her but telling the truth. He actually no longer loved her.But why?
The next day, Leonica sat in the comfort of her living room, looking through the guest list for Ashley’s birthday party. But truthfully, only half of her mind was on the task. The other half was wandering dangerously close to the conversation she had with Gabriel the previous day, more so, the words she had spoken to him.Now, the white-Ette was a hundred percent aware that Gabriel was a scumbag, she had experienced it firsthand, after all. But for some reason, reasons that she tried time and time again to ignore, she couldn’t help but wonder if she had been too harsh on him.Even an *sshole didn’t deserve such a brutal truth and she could have done a better job at selling it smooth to him, right?“Ha,” Sighing, she placed the guest list down and ran her fingers through her hair, cursing at her mind for thinking hard and long over something such as this, that she didn’t even want to recall.Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the door opening and shortly after, the housekeep
~Thirty minutes earlier~Leonica had just finished sorting through the first batch of attending guests when Grace glided down the stairs alone. She glanced up the stairs, expecting the little demon to rush down in his usual energetic state, but he did.“Where’s Ash?” She asked when her son was nowhere to be seen.“The young master fell asleep right after his bath.” Grace informed as she descended the last flight of stairs and picked up the dusting rag she had dropped off before going upstairs, about to resume her duties. When she noticed Leonica’s unwavering stare on her, she asked. “Should I have stopped him? Perhaps I should have kept him awake so he could sleep better at night?”“Uh, no. Not at all. It’s just,” There was a pause in her sentence in which Leonica chuckled to herself. “It’s not every day you see Ash fall asleep right after a bath.”Understanding the reason for her long stare, Grace nodded her head. “Indeed. The Child must have been really exhausted.” She reasoned, rea