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 trae color, heck, even a whole Megan, someone who wasn't as involved in him and Leonica's life as Anastasia, had seen through her facade, Thinking back to the annual banquet, Gabriel seerned to now understand the reason why Mirgan had referred to Angelina the way she did. And along with that thought, came a sudden question.

Had Angelina always been this evil? Was that the reason why Grandmother had been against him marrying her? Was she the one who caused the complication to grandmother's life support that day, as a way to take out the obstacle standing in her path? Gabriel gritted his teeth at the cruel possibilities.

'... Gabriel!" The sound of Leonica's voice once again snapped him out of this thoughts. "Jesus, I know your tensed about the situation right now, but can you please not ignore me."

But he wasn't ignoring her. "I'm sorry," He said, not bothering to explain the reason behind his silence.

Leonica seemed to discard his apology as quickly as it come. "That aside," She began and Gabriel knew exactly where she was heading. He injected before she could continue

"I'm not going to send the location to you once Angelina sends it, so it's better you get your mind off it

"What?" Her voice questioned sharply.

"I'm not sending it to you, Leonica." Gabriel repeated. Be angry at me for as long as you want, but I'd much rather take that than putting your life in danger

"My son's life is in danger God dammit, why the hell should I care about my life being in danger."

"Because that's the rational thing you should do," Gabriel said as he glanced back at his phone, expecting a text message to pop up on his screen. When he saw nothing, he began wondering if Angelina had changed her mind, perhaps returned from the cocaine frenzy. Nah, that was too much of a dream and as bad as he had come to learn Angelina was, she never did drugs. Her mental health already seemed far too shaky

for that

"Look, Leonica," He started in a calmer tone, walking towards his study window and looking outside for some reason. "I'm not going to put you in danger."

"... And you think I want to put you in danger?" Came her hesitant answer. "Please stop being stubborn and give me the God dan location"

"I can't do that. Gabriel shook his head.

lashed our, allowing the pressure of the entire

to match hers. "Can't you see it, she's baiting

what? Are you suggesting I love Ashley to suffer at her hands? Call the cops or prepare to have another child with you

to hear whatever explanation and solution to the situation he had, he continued, "We're going

or stupid? Or do you just

on. "I'm going to go there alone, at least that's what she'll think, but in reality, you're going to come along and locate Ashley

to it.

this moment, you no longer have that choice." He didn't need to full spell out the situation, those words alone were enough go tell Leonica that

stomach at the thought of Ashley being in the center of it all, and had the situation felt right, she would have paked out the entire meal she had with Owen early. But doing that would not only make matters worse, it would also

on her back every now and then and

walk in there and leave me waiting outside on some

Gabriel knew fully well

life into the hands

asked after swallowing the thoughts of how much

he

wouldn't be able to spot it, then I'd be able to see the surroundings as well as where Ashley might be kept. That way I can rescue

that was a great

want, then we best get to it. The longer

up with Leonica a few minutes later. As she fixed on the camera in his necklace, the very same one his grandmother has left for Him, they

her Cologne and hair shampoo wafting into his nose each time the wind picked up, and the annoying presence of Owen who was hanging behind in her car, setting up the camera connection, Gabriel had barely focused on the words she said. But that wasn't going to be a problem seeing as it

had concluded and the camera set discretely, Gabriel began his journey towards the location Angelina had sent him.

location she had sent him belonged to the house he had bought for them to move into once they had gotten married, a few years back. Stepping into the premise gave Gabriel a nish of memories, both good and bad, but he quickly placed them

in the entire house. She

be, the shore throwing you under the bus at the very first sign of trouble."

the bus, I volunteered to come myself," Gabriel said as he scanned the

screech the moment those words left his mouth. "Don't you fucking defend her when the one with

one thing

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