Angling the gun, she found it feeling weird in her grip. It was obvious the toy gun had been designed to be easy for children to use, but for her, a grown woman who had never played one of those games, she had a hard time getting used to it. "Need some help?" She heard Gabriel's nice and felt his warmth as he moved behind her, his hands guiding hers.

"play" Leonica mombled, feeling a bit awkwant with their proximity.

"Holding in like this in best,

She could feel hischest against herback and the warmth his body radiated, the warmth hasherath ander skin gave her and for a secust, she couldn't run, beran thrown off and she ended up missing the target

"rial's not good mommy," Ashley shook his head, while Gabriel decided to take a step bark, giving her much needed space.

"Sorry," She apologized, feeling slightly rebarassed.

"Don't worry." Gabriel said. "You'll get it the next

Leonica didn't give any too of avartion to his words and focused on hitting the target and that she did.

"Mommy got it!" ashleycheered.

"I did." Leonica laughed.

"Now you have to do it two more times."

And sure enough, she did tr

"We did it." She announced

"Ikawwmommy could do it."

Leonica smiled. "Now, which one would you like."

Ashley pointed at the tall white Bear stutty and the stall manager wasted no time in plucking it off the shelf

"Congratulations ma'am," He said as he handed it to Leonica. "You and your husband are the first ones wina price today

At his words, Leonica felt a defensive side of her coming up and she stuttered. "He-he's not my

"Thank you." Gabriel interrupted her, taking the bear and handing it over to Ashley, who gladly took it.

H

"Thank you." Ashley thanked and hugged the bear.

"You're welcome." The stall manager offered them a wave. "And I hope you enjoy the res

rest of your time bere."

Gabriel and Leonica exchanged a look before he led the way

The next few hours were spent on the rides, and they all had a great time, even Leonica gradually became more relaxed around Gabriel.

At some point, Asley became tired and they had to seat by a river view to allow him st

As they chose a spot, some couple other people present glanced their way, whispering incoherent words while obviously pointing at them Leica didn't like that.

"I guess here's okay." The sound of Gabriel's voice had her looking away.

He set Ashley down, the young boy's face flushed from the rating around he had done, the exhaustion evident on his face..

Lesnica commented as she joined them,

toothy smile. "It was

as Ashley shot up the second at the sound of an

stared hard at before asking.

at the distance, it was less than five feet away.

up. Ashley stopped

Leonica's brows dipped. "What?"

to Gabriel and stretched his handout Daddy, please give me some

a rond before reaching into his

cautiously asked, eaming sehemented from the child. "Alright, just be careful and be back here, Last" "Vendaddy!" Ashley said as her took the money and rushed in the directions the ice cream track. "Don't in, Addey"

before her attrition was once again-capturd by

Normally, she was used to people staring and talking,

tell by the look

gently tugging on her finger to get her

she answered. "They're staring, whispering? Why are they doing

soon

because they were

was hot topic, so

what it a scandal

and Owen's relationship was sure to have a tall because of it, but

by going low and creating a misunderstanding in her current relationship and be sure as

his watch. "It's

out that late."

in his words. They indeed needed to leave, not because of the

He was more important.

she found Gabriel standing in front of her, offering a hand to raise her

a little to hand. They

Too close.

to break the silence that had descended on

a mere whisper as she stepped back and wiped her hand on

instead, focused her attention on

I bought it!" He announced happily once in front of

hand.

between his mother and Gabriel, who

"Let's go Ash."

"Alright."

towards the exit, however bumped shoulders

had been glued to his phone, stopped to apologize,

had bumped into, his

tilting her head to examine the person speaking. "Have we met

"We haven't met before, but

news?" Leonica was

look of uncertainty on her face, the stranger asked. "Are you not Leonica

on here?" He asked in an intimidating manner, slightly scaring the stranger, who was later surprised to see him look at Leonica with a softer expression. "Is everything alright, Leonica?" "Y-yeah. But,"

hesitate to raise his phone, showing Leonica the

"This."

few seconds later, a wave of shock and confusion washed over her when she read the Article's headings, which were

Unsettling News.

expressionan het lace despite the wave of confusionenmming amuck inside, and his phone

don't have to make an official statement or amething like that. I know

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