Wanting Her Back.

"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? De all there 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 howy.

Putting on her best smile to mask her inner troubles, Leonica turned around in her chair. "Hey honey, what is it?" She asked, beckoning him over with

open arms.

Ashley wasted no time in rushing towards her and soon settling in her lap. When his hands were firmly wrapped around her neck, black bunny stuffy placed in between them, he answered.

"Can I sleep with you tonight mommy. I don't want to sleep alone,"

Leonica chuckled at his cute action. Slowly, her hand went up and gently stroked the back of his head. "Of course, you can." She answered.

"Beally?" Ashley asked with a growing smile.

"Really," Leonica responded with a smile of her own before she stood up, carrying the child in her arms until they were close to her bed,

Only then did she place him down on the cushion and tuck him underneath the blanket.

"Do you want me to read you a story?" she asked

Ashley lazily shook his head, declining the offer since he was already far too sleepy.

"Alright," Leaning down, she gently pecked her son's forehead. "Go to sleep now."

Ashley didn't need to be told twice. In a matter of seconds, he was already off to his dream world, soft snores reaching Leonica's ears. She chuckled softly after seeing his sleeping face, but the smile on her lips faded the instance she recalled what happened today. Unlike her, Angelina would never have the joy of watching her child sleep

Sad, Leonica thought as she gently got up from the bed and reached for her phone. She scrolled through her contact list for a few seconds before finding Gabriel's number and dialing it.

Sure, she may never have liked Angelina, not even once, but that didn't mean she was never going to call to check up

1 her.

As as she brands herself, she can never seat back and watch anyone suffer to the point of death, not even her enemy.

A few seconds, along with a few rings had passed before Gabriel finally picked up

"Leonica? What do you want?" His voice sounded raspy, making Leonica gap unintentionally.

She took one look at Ashley's sleeping form before moving some distance away, not wanting to disturb him. Then she asked. "Angelina, how is she?" At the other end, Gabriel chuckled. "You ask that now?"

"Was I not to?" Leonica fired back, already regretting her choice of calling to check up on the very same person who had tried to frame her.

Corse her good board!

"Let me ask you something?" Gabriel began, pausing for a few seconds to make sure she was on the same page as him, before he continued. "Did you, do

The vague question had Leonica's bees knitting. "Do what? She questioned

Silence settled on the other end for another few seconds, of which Leonica was able to assess that Gabriel was in a chib, probably drinking away his frustration once again

A bad habit that he never could kill-

"Did you....... push Angelina?

Here she was, worrying herself over Angelina's well-being and Gabriel was

I

"Dain't you?"

will "Leonica snapped a little too loudly than she had intended, but at this point, she really

had some balls to think that she'd stoop

the hell do you think I

answer no more than a

She scoffed angrily, "Your arrogance is so treaking high that it blinds you, makes you

shoulder at the ended

it was simple, caused Gabriel to go into

she had taken ten tucking steps backwards, drawing another freaking stupid line in the sand, why? The thought of that alone annoyed Gabriel and just as he chugged down another glass of

"What in the "

in the direction where more than one girl had gathered. "Rising super star. Heartthrob. Lover of the century, he's what all

direction Christian had pointed at. "Ah, that guy? Yeah, he's popular, handsome too. He's worth the noise. Wanna know something else?" He nudged Gabriel with his elbow. When Gabriel looked over at him, he continued. "Word has it that he's got a superpower; stealing your woman." He made

with, now here his useless friend was, saying that someone other than that pest of a human

need

why should I? I'm just telling the truth, am I not, Gabe? Don't you Lloyd joked, expecting Gabriel to remain

to hurry up and claim your damsel before someone gets a grab at her?" The notrete

glass. "More than anything right now, I think I actually want Leonica back in

to Claim Your Surprise

Play

Life Jacket.

audacious accusation, Leonica couldn't stop her Mary-Sux like mind from still pondering about Angelinia wellbeing Seated in her office, the Dipped through yet another file with an absent mind, heaving a sigh at the end. Kennedy who was seated in a chair

was on her mind, and Kennedy, more than anyone, knew that the mornent something plagued his employer's mind, she was either slow

flow in her almost perfect personality that she definitely had to work

bury his nose back into his work, or to speak and well save himself less work, Kennedy

alright,

daydreaming and she instantly realized the tiny laws she had made more

She responded with an undertone sigh. "I just.. I'm just thinking of something" "That much is obvious," Kennedy rose up from his seat, walking toward the coffee machine and putting a fresh brew to set. Resting against the counter, he eyed her. "Would you like to talk it out?" Leonica

so," Kennedy muttered just as

"Pardon?"

and several more into his. Holding the cup in his hand, he walked toward Leonica's table and dropped it down. "With all due respect Ma'am, whatever is on your mind seems to be affecting work, immensely." He nudged his head in the direction of the trash bin. "Wouldn't it be best to sort it out before you handle things back here?" "Wouldn't it." Leonica thought

the condition she was in, as far as she was alive, it was good enough to close the case for Leonica "You're right," She rose to her feet and gathered a few things from her table, showing them into the handbag she

your table before

Leonica offered him a smile and turned around, exiting

receptionist at the hospital smiled at the familiar face the moment Leonica arrived at the

her name, after all, her face was constantly being pasted on newspapers and billboard adifs. HL Could i

her keyboard "Ms. Fernandez just finished her daily dosage so she's free for visitations. She read out the Information

glancing back and forth between the paper in her hand and the members written

on the door before sliding it open and stepping inside. Instantly, her eyes found Angelina, who seemed to

brunette glanced back, eyes turning dark the moment she spotted Leonica. "What are you doing here?" Her tone dripped with unhidden wenomes

quietly dusted it aside, tal closest table. "I can see you're doing well," She

forward to place the fruit basket she

to be dead?" she glanced at the fruit basker and scoffed. "And what is that? Is that your way of coming to show

at all," Leonica answered with a shake of her head, expression

low your kind of person, Leonica." She stepped forward, closing some distance between them. You're awoll in sheep's clothing. A saint pretending to be

what it took to snap Leonica out

old witch must obviously have been blinded by your little act

of Angelina with a serious gaze "Grandmother had given you a chance. Eight years ago, she presented you with one, but you blew

clenched her fist. Leonica's retort had obviously deflated whatever balloon she was about to inflate, but she wasn't about to admit defeat. Not now, or

into Leonica's chest. "Are a fiancé stealing bitch and a murderer. Let this knowledge hunt you Leonica; You killed

face. "That, was

do shit," Leonica slapped her finger away after rolling her eyes in a manner that made Angelina want to rip the your doing,

"But I must say, I admire your determination to keep Gabriel. However, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't stupid useless and many

stuttered, face turning red with rising

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