At the thought of said brunette, Leonica glanced back in Gabriel's direction, finding him leaned against his car, tinkering with his phone.

She peeled her gaze away before she could stare any longer. "And did she confess? Why she did it I mean?"

"The chief didn't tell me, but he promises to send her file over to my place later this evening, once they're done with interrogating her." There was a pause as he glanced at the clock, seeing the time for the file to arrive was almost at hand. "Which is in about an hour. Maybe you could... come over and we'll look through it together?" His question had Leonica speechless for a few seconds.

"Uh, sure?" She answered, unsure, but another flashing image of her vandalized property sealed off any thought of doubt. "Send me the address, I'll be there as soon as I can."

"Alright, see you then."

"Yeah, bye." Leonica said and hung up. Once the call ended, she turned around and matches back in the direction of her car, passing Gabriel. "I have to leave, let's meet up some other time." She told him.

The sound of her voice snapped him out of whatever it is he was doing on his phone. "What? Hey wait!" He called out, chasing after her.

Only did she stop when his hand was wrapped around her wrist. "Are you leaving? Why?"

"I have something important to attend to." Leonica answered quickly, clearly in a hurry.

"More important that what we're doing?" Gabriel couldn't help but ask, brows knitted together at the top of his head.

Leonica licked her lips, hesitating for a few seconds before nodding. "Yes." Gabriel's hold on her wrist loosened at her answer. Clearly he wasn't expecting that answer, and the look of hurt of his made it clear.

"Look, I'd love to stay and help you," She gestured between the beach and him, "regain your memory and all, but I have to go meet Arvan. My house was vandalized yesterday and he's got the file containing the culprits statement-"

"Your house was vandalized?" He cut her off, brows furrowing even deeper. "And who's Arvan?"

"I'll explain it to you later." She said, giving him a look. "For now, I have to go." She turned to leave.

Leonica's head snapped back so quick, one would

"No." She objected.

Gabriel

said so." Leonica stood her

because you want to

Leonica's mouth at his words. "Hiding something from you? Your not that important, Gabriel." She

the eye. "Are you sure?" Without giving her time to respond, he reached into his pocket, pulled his phone

sudden question. "What?" She narrowed her brows in

phone, Gabriel repeated. "The accident,

sputtered, not having

a sence of déjà vu, one she each time she revised for an exam yet the questions she read and perfected never came out. "A house fire, Ashley had accidentally lit the curtains on fire." She lied, spitting out the first clumsy excuse that had entered her head. As soon as those words left her mouth, she internally slapped herself and prayed that Ashley would forgive her for using his name to lie. "Lies." Gabriel said and shoved his phone at her face. On the screen was an image, an article to be more precise. The article's headline read 'Young and Famous Newscaster Angelina Fernandez, imprisoned for attempted murder on the life of Gabriel Bryce, her ex fiance.' Seeing this, her breathing stilled. "Why do you have this?" She managed to question, eyes flickering between the

he had the article, but the look of accusation on his face had her stumbling over her words, not able to think of a

she settled for, "You

the judge of

I can't be sure when you'll ever

813

I want the truth. All

truth, here's the truth; seven years ago you and I were married. However, that didn't last long, as you can see. On the day you proposed the divorce, I found out I was pregnant. You brought your mistress home," She pointed towards the phone, her gesture holding more effort as she got angrier by each passing second. "And humiliated me. I decided I was done at that moment. I left, for good, for five years. But then father's health started getting worse, Leonardo convinced me to come back home, here and I did. Then we met, again, you... You were still the same dick as

the baby. You dissolved your engagement with her after that. That must have driven her crazy because he's feigned innocence and approached Ashley, gave him a poisoned toy and when that didn't work, she kidnapped him. You went to save, but got cross in the consequences of her mental

if he wasn't comprehending a single thing

more.

do you still want more?" She spat out, her voice laced with venom

gone blank after hearing the truth, the very same truth he had yearned for for the

head questioned, but much to his own surprise, Gabriel denied it. He knew Leonica was telling the truth. It wasn't something he

then I'll be taking my leave now. I'll text you the next time we should meet." She said and turned around, about to walk

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