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.

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

be surprised if she found out

mommy."

hopped of his chair,

up and scooped him up in her arms. "Let's go now

""Mhm, let's!"

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

"I'll do just that. Have

~O~

had decided to head into work early, because truthfully, engrossing herself in work seemed more appealing than doing nothing

While Kennedy is busy identifying his accomplice,

to do

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 of sound

3/3.

the room.

but just like before, the assistant did not

he wasn't

a sigh, she placed her laptop down

"Leonica Romero speaking."

Romero?" The voice 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

him, but he's a little... Difficult." The

should come

call ended

when she stepped

receptionist gestured for her to follow her and

and held her

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