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"What the hell is happening?" Someone, one of the guests who weren't busy with their respective partners on the dance floor, whispered Leonica's exact thought as she stared at each of the hands presented in front of her, one out of three waiting for her to place her hand in theirs and make a pick. "Who do you think she's going to choose?" Another person asked in a whisper, sipping on their wine as they watched the scene play out with interest.

"I know we aren't meant our poke our nose in their matter, but I can't help but wonder. All three men are dashing. So who's Ms. Romero going to pick?

The whispers, once little, slowly rose as more people's attentions were drawn to the scene, soon, the voice's reached Ashley's ears. Stopping his currently clumsy but very much enjoyable dance with Daisy, the younger boy turned in the direction where all eyes had been looking. The first thing he noticed was his mother backed against the comer like a confused rabbit, sweating under the growing eyes of its spectators and ready to dash at any given moment

The second thing he noticed was the three familiar men standing in front of her.

"Daddy, Arvan, Owen.' He counted them one by one, trying to understand what was happening,

Daisy, who had sensed his confusion, perched beside him. Bringing her voice down, she whispered. "I think my daddy, your daddy, and that strange man is trynna ask your mommy to a dance."

Ah, so that was what was happening! Ashley nearly laughed at his slow thinking, inwardly slapping himself on the head. How could he have been so ignorant?

Well, he'd make up for that. From where he stood, it was clear to him that his mother was confused, not sure whose hand to accept and if he knew better, which he did, Ashley was sure that his mother wasn't going to choose his father's hand. He was aware that his daddy had done something bad to upset his mommy, she had made it known many times, including tonight.

And if he law better, which once again, he did, then Ashley knew his mother was either going to pick Arvan or Owen's hand. But he wasn't going to let that happen. As much as he loved either of them, he loved his father more and needed to help him.

Turning to Daisy, Ashley pulled her close and whispered his plan in her ears. Once he was done, they pulled apart and nodded at each other before striding off in the direction Leonica was, comered by the three mon

"Leonica, would you. Arvan began once again after a while of silence, but before his words could be completed, Daisy suddenly showed up and placed her hand in his open palm, pulling him slightly in her direction

"Daddy, I want to dance with you!" She said excitedly while pulling him towards the dance floor. Arvan muttered a few incoherent words of protest, which Daisy didn't pay attention to as she looked over to her friend and gave an awkward wink

The wink was almost like his go ahead signal, no, in fact it was his go ahead signal, because the moment he received it from Daisy, Ashley increased his pace, cutting in between his father and Owen in the blink of an eye and before either men could react, he took his mother's hand and placed it in that of his father's, stopping Leonica before she could place her hand in Owen's hand.

The gesture surprised Leonica and she looked down at her son who innocently smiled up at her before slowly pushing her and Gabriel into the dance floor. "Dalsy and I just finished our dance mommy, daddy, now it's your tum" Ashley was saying as he gave them both one final push towards the dance floor and clapped his hands together, indicating a job well done.

However, as soon as they had mixed with the other couples on the dance floor, Leonica slipped her hand out of Gabriel's, feverishly cleaning it against her dress in a bid to get the feeling of his skin against hers off.

go unnoticed by Gabriel, as well as the fact that she was looking around, trying to see if anyone was keeping an eye

the sound of his voice and looked over at him, brows meeting at the center of her face. "Not if you

the direction and grimaced at the happy look she saw on her son's face. It was obvious that he was expecting

once more when she realized that Gabriel was right. If she intended on ruining Ashley's day, then why not, she could waltz her

she'd have to suck it up and dance with that same ex husband. All in the

was unfair at

he offered his hand to her. "Shall we?" Leonica glanced at his outstretched hand, and then at Ashley who still had his eyes on them, blooming smile on his lips as he imagined

a sigh of utter defeat, Leonica returned her hand into Gabriel's waiting palms and

she had purposefully put between them. Lovea's body one upalnost instantly at the feeling, but slow, as it recalling all of the times she had danced with Gabriel

the beginning at their dance, Iconic looked at Gabriel ilirectly, praying that he had not noticed the stupid actions of her body Sing the ghostly outline of a smile across

doing the opposite of her unind. But now, she had to deal with it and

herself and fully, mind and body, eased into the dance

she'd

dance together loolood natural and perfect to the outside eyes that those who had been secretly watching begm to whisper,

of the pair of brown eyes that had been watching them to the past mine, and right now, said pair of eyes were narrowed in amoyance, as her fist

With a part of her brain whispering to her that Gabriel still had feelings for her, buried somewhere deep in him that could only be awakened by the amount of jealousy she was terling, she grabbed a random man's hand and

she was positioned on the dance floor, fingers laced with her partner, did Angelina notice that the

again." He uttered, flashing his usual charming smile as they settled into the rhythm of

His suspicion was confirmed even more when he caught her

given by the song, he spun her around and caught glance of where, or rather, who she was looking at. He wouldn't lie, sering Leonica dancing with Gabriel Bryce, seeing how perfectly they danced together and realizing that could have been him, stirred a wave of

it had come, it was gone as he forced himself to focus more on his

Ms Fernandez." He began, but

that Owen obviously would have fallen for, if his heart hadn't

I asked a

she

to know a thing or two about the figurine company itself, so I was just wondering, would you care to tell me how you actually got it?" *How I got it? I've told you before, a friend who

Friend, as

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