“I’m going to send you a location and I want either you or that wh*re mother of his, to meet me there. Alone. If either of you tries to play smart and bring anyone else along, your son will suffer the consequences. Oh, and Gabriel, whatever your choice is going to be, I suggest you hurry up, after all, I’m not the most patient person. You should know this, right?” Angelina said and the last thing Gabriel heard before the line went dead was the sound of her laughter, which he once considered beautiful, sounding like that of the devil's.With the room once again falling into silence, Gabriel was left with his thoughts. They slowly began to spiral, picking up from where it had been left off minutes ago, cursing and blaming himself for the current situation.At some point, he felt like laughing at his very on stupidity. Leonica had seen through the witch's true color, heck, even a whole Megan, someone who wasn't as involved in him and Leonica's life as Anastasia, had seen through her faca
Leonica eyes remained glued to the burning house, frozen shut in place, even after Owen tucked Ashley in the back seat and came back for her, leading her towards the p*ssenger seat and whispering to her that everything was going to be alright and for now, he’d drive she and Ashley some for safety. The moment his hands released her to pull open the door, the spell had broken and the world around her began to make sense again.Owen was about to open the door, intending to lead her in when Leonica’s hand caught his. He turned to look at her with a confused gaze.“What are you doing?” He asked."He's still in there." Came her reply. "He's in there. I'm sure of it." She repeated sternly and broke out of his hold."Leo... Leonica, where are you going." Owen said and chased after her, standing in her path to block her.At times like this, Leonica cursed the fact that the younger boy had somehow grown taller than her."Get out of my way." She demanded."You're not thinking rationally." Owen c
“Mr. Bryce seems to have suffered from a concussion caused by the explosion, resulting in partial amnesia.” Doctor Bailey explained to Leonica as they now stood outside of Gabriel’s hospital ward.After hearing the news, she had rushes to the hospital for more detailed explanation and intake. Upon arriving at the hospital and walking in during one of Gabriel’s physical examination, she was shocked that he didn’t make any effort to speak to her. He had only stared at her like some weird statue and after a while, he said.“I think you’re in the wrong room, Ms.”Three months ago, Leonica would have killed to hear those exact same words and watch Gabriel stare at her with those exact same unfamiliar yet familiar eyes, but that was three months and now was now, the present and hearing those words, pulled at a string in her heart.“Gabriel…” she had begun, still finding it hard to believe Doctor Bailey’s words. For some reason, she believed that Gabriel, the Gabriel she knowns, was just too
The one time Leonica found the most gripping each time she settled down to read her favorite books, were the pin drop moment.Suspense, silence and uncertainty. Those three went pleasant well during that particular moment and made the story all the more interesting and gripping to her as a devoted reader. But heck, she had never for once sat down and thought about how she’d handle such a situation if it was her faced with it, rather than the Mary Sue female leads in the books she read.Thus, a minute after Gabriel had asked the question he did, Leonica still remained silent, unsure of how to answer the question.Who was she to him? Even she wondered, but right now obviously wasn’t the time for her to seat back and indulge herself with the pleasure of trying to figure that question out. Right now, she needed to answer the question which had been asked.But even with that mindset put at the forefront of her mind, Leonica still couldn’t bring herself to answer, after all, if she wasn’t s
“We once were, but now, we’re divorced.”Gabriel stood by his window, glancing down at the small meaningless p*ssing figures, all the while allowing Leonica’s words to replay in his mind as if it had been set on repeat.Not a secondly longer had gone by after the last repeat, when he sighed and stuffed both of his hands into his pocket, leaning his weight slightly on the back of his heel.Why was Leonica's words disturbing him? No, why was he allowing her words disturb him?Was it because of the familiar aura that surrounded her, prompting him to believe that they had indeed been married, but now divorced as she said? Or was it the fact that he found it challenging to believe that he had actually settled down with the very same woman his grandmother had picked for him?That’s right, he remembered Leonica, at least he remembered what his memory allowed and that was the fact that she was the woman his grandmother had picked to be his wife in an arranged marriage between two families.He
The next day, Leonica had taken just about enough time out from her work schedule to have Ashley taken to school by herself.As they pulled up in the parking lot of his school and Leonica gathered his bag and lunch box, the boy turned to face her.“Mommy?” He called out to her.“Yes darling?” Leonica answered all the while trying to ensure that she had packed everything he’d need for the school day, earlier in the morning.“When can I go and see daddy again?”She halted at his question and looked at him. “What?”“I haven’t seen daddy in a long while,” Well, not long, just the last two weeks she had stopped him from visiting Gabriel because she thought his chances of waking up were growing slimmer with each p*ssing day. In short, her intention was to make sure the younger boy wouldn’t be hurt when his father didn’t wake up any longer. And she also hoped that slowly, he’d grown to forget about Gabriel.But sadly, that wasn’t happening anytime soon and now that Gabriel was awake, with am
“Stuart Reeds was his name.” Kennedy explains, pacing the office all the while his employer sat behind her desk, reading through the employee candidate list for what seemed like the hundredth time.After the interview has ended, a bit too quickly than he had expected, Leonica had requested for the file, mumbling underneath her breath about Stuart having this awful off putting vibe around him.But even after yet another back ground check, license plate scans and criminal background check up, they still couldn’t find anything to match her suspicion.“Previously worked in C&D industry as the head of their accounting department.” He continued on, unaware of how the name of the mentioned company had caught Leonica’s attention.“C&D industry?” She asked, raising her gaze from the file for the first time. Her question earned a nod from the *ssistant, which later left her to think back to where she had heard the said name.Less than a minute later, it clicked into place. Owen, he had mentione
The inevitable couldn’t be avoided, Leonica told herself over and over again, as she stood in front of the picture Gabriel had slid across the table, feeling like she had felt the day she revealed Ashley’s identity to him back at the hospital.Gabriel, noticing her hesitancy to speak, spoke up. “You seem to be keeping a lot of things from me, Leonica.”“I’m not.” She argued, gaze still glued on the picture while her mind tried to phantom about escape from the situation.But, did she really need an escape? Leonica’s definition of escape, as she has learnt, is to complicate things more than they already were. But did she really need to do that right now?What harm could it bring to come clean? The voice in the back of her mind questioned.Yeah, what harm indeed?The worse that could happen was Gabriel denying Ashley and finally cutting ties with them both, using his amnesia as an excuse. That sounded nice, until it didn’t and ended up leaving a sour taste in Leonica’s mouth and a rising