Even thought he was quiet, his expression said it all.

She scotled. "You think I'm trying to con you?"

"I never said that." Gabriel corrected. "All I said was 'I can't blindly trust you', Since when was there something wrong with being on my guard"

Leonica looked like she was about to report back, but held her mouth

Onguard? Against who? The mother of your child?

Sie so wanted to say that, but considering the fact that Gabriel didn't even remember who she was, coupled with Doctor Bailey's

dvice, she bit those words back,

"No, there's nothing wrong with that." She said, sounding more composed than a few seconds ago.

Gabriel nodded in agreement, for some reason, he found watching her lose her composure rather entertaining. Either it had something to do with the fact that he always enjoyed the companies od blonde, attractive ones such as herself, or it had something to do with... that.

"So?" He tilted his head to the side with a questioning gaze, strands of his fair falling out of place with the action.

The displaced strands caught Leonica's attention and caused her to stare. Not only did Gabriel, dressed in a hospital gown with his hair returning to its natural middle parting that allowed the ends of his hair brush against his cheek bones due to the absence of perming gel, look completely unlike him, but also surprisingly handsome, as much as Leonica wouldn't love to admit.

"Why don't you take a pic, it lasts longer." The irony in Gabriel's voice had Leonica snapping out of her unintentional stare. She glared at him. "I wasn't staring "

*Yeah? Then what were you doing if not undressing me with your eyes?" He boldly questioned, leaving Leonica speechless. The Gabriel she lanew would never dare say such a thing!

Then again, as she started at him, taking note of the fact that his countenance was indeed different from the Gabriel, business stuck up, cold bastard and workaholic asshole, she knew. This Gabriel, although, the same person was more straightforward and surprisingly polite despite his bold antics.

Leonica couldn't help but wonder if this was how Gabriel actually was like before he met Angelina. Before he was tasked with taking on the burden of such a big company. Before all the hate and betrayal he experienced during his climb up. Before He had to watch his grandmother slowly die.

Before he became the Gabriel Bryce he was today.

"I wasn't undressing you with my eyes," She began with a sigh that suggested she was done with whatever entertaining play Gabriel was about to begin. "I was thinking about how much... different you look from your usual self." She said, but later cursed herself for opening her mouth and speaking comfortably around Gabriel

'Don't forget, he may have lost his memory and now seem like a totally different person, but he's still the same man that had hurt you. The thought had her tensing up, putting her guard, which she had unintentionally let down, back up.

didn't fail to notice the sudden change

have business to get back to. I'll stop by your company and inform Bill that you have woken up." She said with

every movement and thanks to that, he noticed how quickly she had changes her countenance with him, Now one thing about Gabriel Bryce was that, whether ten years younger or ten years older, he forever remained an Observing person and because of that,

help but ask." focused on locating her phone, he questioned again, this time around, one that she couldn't

I that much different?" When Leonica didn't respond and

stopped just when she had located her phone and looked back

was no point in

but now,

said and with the brief moment Gabriel looked speechless, she walked

thankful that there was no one to witness her legs turning into a weird jelly state as she leaned against the wall, supporting

that was the first thought that came to her

honestly think by giving Gabriel a side dish of amnesia along with the main course meal of a

yet she worried day and about him in the past three weeks and the moment she heard he had woken up, she felt an inexplicable amount of relief and back, she took his sacrifices into consideration and blurted out

and was 'not forgiving him' something she held onto in

her phone ringing. She glanced down at the device in

she still answered the phone and pressed it close to

Ms. Romero?" A

you are. How may I

at the mention of Angelina's prison. Many thoughts roamed her mind in seconds, wondering why a warden had called her like. How

she in

the next second. "Ms. Angelina Fernandez has requested a personal visit from you. Would you possibly be

Visiting The Villainess.

once were, but

figures, all the while allowing Leonica's

last repeat, when he sighed and stuffed both of his hands into his pocket, leaning his weight slightly on

disturbing him? No, why was he allowing her

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

and that was the fact that

lip as she stood beside her parents, exhibiting nothing but elegance in the picture his grandmother

had ultimately lead to an argument between them both. It hasn't been anything too hot, but lasted a long time as each side of the party had their says and

as a child when his parents insisted on locking him in the house, employing private tutors and any other form of interaction that was necessary in shaping him into

was otherwise for Lila Bryce, Gabriel was a man who strongly believed in true love, the kind of love he had never seen his parents share. His final reason fell in line with

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