Leonica nodded, a smile on her lips as she watched him grab the toast without hesitation and take a hung chunk out of it.

Yeah, there's no point making him eat the salad if it's not really helping with his healing process, she thought.

Her attention was pulled away from Ashley when her phone vibrated. She looked at it and instantly smiled when seeing a text message from Owen. [Hey baby, how are you?] His message read.

She wasted no time responding.

[Good, just had breakfast with Ashley. How are you?]

Owen's response was immediate.

[Good. But I'm pretty sure I can be better with a kiss from you.]

His message made her chuckle and she glanced at her son who was busy with his own breakfast before responding.

[You're getting cocky Owen Lee.] Although she replied that way, She actually didn't mind the cockiness. It was part of Owen's charm.

Owen's reply came.

[And you like it, future Mrs. Romero Lee.]

She bit her bottom lip and chuckled, quickly replying with:

[I do.]

But a second later, she decided to delete the message, realizing it might be too much and instead replaced it with; [Wanna come over later?]

[Is that even a question.]

Satisfied, she smiled.

Time spent with him was a blissful distraction from all the ruckus going on in her life, namely Ashley's news and Kennedy's mismatched

she honestly won't be surprised if she found out that

mommy." Ashley

your bag." He nodded and hopped of his chair, coming back seconds later with the bag hanging

him up in

""Mhm, let's!"

antiques, Leonica began to walk towards the door when she remembered something. "Oh, Grace,

nanny nodded her head. "I'll do just that. Have a good day Madame and

~O~

engrossing herself in work seemed more appealing than doing nothing and allowing her mind ponder

care of. While Kennedy is busy identifying his accomplice, it'd be wise for her to start figuring out various reasons

she need to do some intense

landline somewhere in her office rang. "Kennedy," She called her assistant, wanting him to answer the phone in her stead as she was far too engrossed in what she was doing. Only did she look away when her office remained void of the assistant's voice, the ringing landline being the only source

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the room.

like

he wasn't

sigh, she placed her laptop down and walked towards the landline

"Leonica Romero speaking."

of her receptionist responded back. "There's someone at the reception

furrowed. Audience? She didn't have any appointments scheduled for today, and she wasn't expecting any. "Who

I've tried to ask him, but he's a little... Difficult."

you should come down and see

be right there." With that, the call

elevator when she stepped

gestured for her to follow her and together, they headed towards the

Ma'am." Her receptionist explained and held her hand out,

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