Leaning down, Leonica used the pad of her thumb and wiped residue of ice cream off the corner of his lips. "How much Ice cream did you have?" She questioned. Ashley gave a giddy giggle at her question, but quickdy resumes his begging when he realizes he's about to be separated from his Infinite source of ice cream

"Please mommy, I wanna stay. Can't we just stay? I don't mind skipping school for one day." He begged.

"He can stay," Gabriel's voice sounded out from behind her.

Leonica willed herself to stay still even though every fiber in her body screamed that she needed to put distance between she and Gabriel.

"You both can stay." Gabriel added, concluding his previous sentence.

At this, Leonica whipped her head around, about to refuse, but she went mute the moment she realized how close Gabriel truly was Why was he standing so close! All the warning signs in her head went red and she stepped back, finally giving them enough space to put those red lights at ease.

If she had lowered her gaze any laterer, she would have seen how flattened and for the briefest second, disappointment sipped into the edges of his always collected expression

"No, we we need to leave." Leonica sputtered, taking a second to berate herself before adding in Ashley has school to prepare for "I can have Bill drive him to school tomorrow" Gabriel suggested.

"No!" Her answer came out rather too harsh and Leonica found herselt grimacing when she caught Gabriel's hurt expression. "That that won't be possible." She found herself trying to quickly make up a cover story. "You can't have Bill take Ashley because, we, you and I, we have to be somewhere tomorrow

Gabriel shot her a raised brow book; silently questioning, if she was hearing herself and Leonica slammed her eyes shut, praying that

he'd just back oft and let them go home betore she made a mess of herself any further than she already has.

But then again, she could easily grab her child, which by the way, was still stuck to her leg like a koala, and briskly walk out. But that would make her look rather rude.

But, why should she care if she looked rude or not?

that she was just doing all it took to get away from him. "Buddy," he turned his attention to Ashley. "Listen to your mom, go

grumbled underneath his breath, but none the less,

Leonica felt a wave of relief wash over her and she quickly picked Ashley up, placing him by

not gone more than a few steps when Gabriel's voice stopped her. "Leonica," She turned around to see him holding up his phone in one hand and a smile on his face that said 'I'm not letting you go so easily on your lie". "I'll be expecting your call this

the house, app the

are you doing,

Away From Him You Pricey

Gabriel as he stood in place even after

had completely vanished, leaving him with a look that screamed focus as he tried to filter his thought, dig deeper than the rosy scent of Leonica that seemed to fill his head and Ashley's tiny loveable: voice, all in a bid to

though he had seen the picture, the girl in it looked familiar yet distance and he got that one feeling that would always wash over him when he found himself in the highest length of the Eiffel tower, seating down and holding a video call with Lila where she made a show of the foods she had prepared while he was all

distant homesick feeling that settled in his gut, but would soon be consumed by anger the moment he realizes he can't get his hand on his

she was, the female made no effort to hide her animosity

"A bad memory."

dripped of her tongue as she

was enough to give him the gist of the situation. Whoever

knowing that, Gabriel couldn't stop his mind from wandering back to the features

the table and plucked out the picture, only to stare at it, hoping

had been watching him, silently, finally spoke up. "Mr. Bryce is everything alright? Would you need me to do something for

Gabriel's answer was almost inaudible as he answered lowly, throwing his head back

whole memory loss thing was telling on him and it frustrated him greatly that he couldn't remember anything. Especially when it came to Leonica because she always seemed so on guard around him. Each step she took felt like she had prepared herself to walk on eggshells

Gabriel more

often questioned himself in the one week since he had woken up and once again, he was repeating the same mantra, asking himself

way she had wriggled out of his hold was almost as if she was trying to get lose of burning

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