After Divorce Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant

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?

doing all it took to get away from him. "Buddy," he turned

breath, but none the

quickly picked Ashley up, placing him by her side. "We'll be leaving now." She said and turned around, wanting nothing more than to step out

steps when Gabriel's voice stopped her. "Leonica," She turned around to see him holding up his phone in one

spun around and briskly walked out of the house, app the while mentally slapping herself with

you

Him

to Gabriel as he stood in place

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 pin point the face that had flashes through his

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

that settled in his gut, but would soon be consumed by anger the moment he realizes he can't get his hand on his grandmother's precious cooking, that was the exact feeling her felt when he looked at the picture

had decided to ask Leonica all about who she was,

"A bad memory."

recalled the amount of venom that had dripped of her tongue

alone was enough to give him the gist of the

stop his mind from wandering back to

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

"Mr. Bryce is everything alright? Would you need

inaudible as he answered lowly, throwing

to Leonica because she always seemed so on guard around him. Each step she took felt like she had prepared herself to

seemed to irritate Gabriel more

up and once again, he was repeating the same mantra, asking himself why be felt so upset and

way she had wriggled out of his hold was almost