After Divorce, Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant-Chapter 103 The Inevitable Couldn’t Be Avoided.

The inevitable couldn’t be avoided, Leonica told herself over and over again, as she stood in front of the picture Gabriel had slid across the table, feeling like she had felt the day she revealed Ashley’s identity to him back at the hospital.

Gabriel, noticing her hesitancy to speak, spoke up. “You seem to be keeping a lot of things from me, Leonica.”

“I’m not.” She argued, gaze still glued on the picture while her mind tried to phantom about escape from the situation.

But, did she really need an escape? Leonica’s definition of escape, as she has learnt, is to complicate things more than they already were. But did she really need to do that right now?

What harm could it bring to come clean? The voice in the back of her mind questioned.

Yeah, what harm indeed?

The worse that could happen was Gabriel denying Ashley and finally cutting ties with them both, using his amnesia as an excuse. That sounded nice, until it didn’t and ended up leaving a sour taste in Leonica’s mouth and a rising bile that she tries to force down a couple of times.

“If you’re not, then tell me, who is that child?” Gabriel argued back, watching her with narrowed eyes. It was clear that the wheels in her head was spinning, most definitely trying to form what?

An answer? Gabriel questioned, not sure why she’d have the need to find or make an answer when it was clear to all, even he who had lost his memory.

Shit he was still trying to come to terms with.

A sigh from Leonica brought his mind back to the important matter at hand. He cocked his head to the side, watching her more intensely this time around.

Leonica shifted in her stance, pushing her weight onto her non dominant leg and crossing her hand across her chest as she made up her mind.

She was going to tell him. To hell with whatever happens afterwards. All she cares about is knowing that she had gotten it off her chest, told him the truth and not lied to him. Not that it really mattered to her if she lies to him or not.

“He’s my son... Our son.” She confessed after a heartbeat, somewhat surprised when Gabriel didn’t show any real emotion.

“Bill,” He turned towards his assistant, watching as he became alert at the sound of his name. “Wait outside for a minute, would you?”

“O-of course.” Bill stuttered, as usual, not used to Gabriel’s less mean way of speaking. He wasn’t exactly polite, but compared to the Gabriel Bryce of a few weeks back, a month at tops, this Gabriel was far way more polite, more Tolerable.

But Bill really didn’t have the time to think all that over. Bowing at his employer’s instruction, he exited the room, giving them the privacy that had been demanded of him.

Once alone, Gabriel turned his gaze back on Leonica, but much like the angered or frustrated gaze she had expected, Gabriel had a calm expression on his face and for the briefest second, she was reminded of how calm he used to be when Lila had first introduced them.

“So, we have a son?” Gabriel’s question sounded more like a speech directed towards himself, rather than the female in front of him. “How old is he?”

“Five.” Leonica answered after swallowing her saliva.

She watched as he went silent after her worse, gaze casted towards the picture on the table while he played with the tips of his finger, something she knew he did each time he was trying to concentrate on one too many things.

After a while, he asked the question on his mind. “How... how long were we married?”

And Leonica was not expecting that. Heck! She hadn’t expected all that had happened here today. Gabriel finding the picture, his almost lifeless reaction, like he had long knew and accepted the fact before she sprung in and dropped the bomb, and lastly, this damn question.

And all of his behavior today, in such a short time span, made Leonica wonder, who really was the man in front of her. He was far too different to be her Gabriel.

No, he wasn’t far too different from her Gabriel. He was her Gabriel, the Gabriel she had fallen for close to a decade ago, not the monster he had become during their marriage. Perhaps she had gotten too used to that him, the Gabriel she hated, that she couldn’t even recognize the man whom she had actually fallen for.

Perhaps that’s it, Leonica thought as she moved and settled in the chair across from Gabriel, surprising him as she placed her bag down and arranged her hands on her laps.

“Two years, you and I were married for two years.” She honestly answered his question, waiting for the ones that were to come.

Two years? Gabriel pondered. If they were married for two years, how come Ashley was Five?

“We got married seven years ago, divorced five years ago.” Leonica confidently answered his question as if she was able to read it off his face.

Ah, that made more sense, Gabriel thought.

Another few seconds passed before he asked. “And why did we get a divorce?”

Now that, Leonica couldn’t answer confidently.

Because you were an asshole. Because she fell in love with a witch and neglected your family, or perhaps you were just too stupid.

She wanted to say all those words, but kept her mouth shut and instead, stared blankly at him. frёewebηovel.cѳm

Gabriel more than got the memo. It was his fault.

Nodding his head, he moved onto the next question, not bothering to press for answers on the previous one.

“Do we live together? You me and... Ashley?” He asked.

When Leonica shook her head, get felt a weird sense of disappointment wash over him. “No, we don’t. Ashley stays at mine, sometimes at my parents.” She informed. When she said nothing about the child staying with him, Gabriel narrowed his eyes. “Your place wasn’t the best. Fancy and all, but not suitable for a growing child.” She said and gave a nonchalant shrug to cover up the shivers that had washed over her body at the thought of the numerous chances Angelina would have had to hurt Ashley had he actually stayed at Gabriel’s place.

Gabriel wondered how his place wasn’t suitable for Ashley. Was it because the child would be living far away from his mother?

Despite the thoughts in his mind, disapproving of the fact that Ashley didn’t for once stay with him, a sense of fatherly instinct causing a sudden spike of anger towards rise in his chest, Gabriel calmly asked.

“Where is he, now?”

Leonica was quiet for a few seconds before she gave the best answer her mind could conjure. “He’s safe.” She has unknowingly smiles when answering aa thoughts of Gabriel’s sacrifice flashed in her mind.

However, the smile disappeared as soon as it had come, but as fleeting and short lived as the smile had been, it had caused weird heart palpitations in his chest the moment Gabriel spotted it.

Seconds later, he was left with a new feeling of emptiness in his chest after her smile disappeared.

He managed to push the weird feeling aside and asked. “Can I see him?”

Now she felt a small sense of guilt having to watch a father ask to see his own son. However, in this case, there was nothing she could do. It was either she bend to Gabriel’s whims and see Ashley get hurt or she kept him away from Gabriel, hopefully he couldn’t feel pain towards someone he couldn’t even recall.

“...No.” Her answer has Gabriel furrowing his brow and demanding for an answer seconds later. “Because you’ll only end up hurting him. Ashley’s a very sensitive child, he takes the simplest of things to heart, now imagine how he’d feel if his own father doesn’t even remember him?” Came her answer as she glanced at her watch and proceeded to stand up. “As much as I hate to admit it; that boy loves you far too much, something like that would only break his heart. And I’m not ready to see my son cry over someone who isn’t worth it.”

Gabriel’s eyes darkened at her words. “I’d watch my mouth if I were you.” He warned.

“Or what?” Leonica challenged, taking a step towards him. “Huh?”

It seems like when she had advanced towards Gabriel, she hasn’t phantom that he’d instantly stand up from the chair he had been seating in.

“If I were you, I’d watch my mouth, Leonica.” He warned again, taking each word slower than the previous and dragging their syllables.

Now, perhaps it had been because of the way he spoke, or the way he called out her name, or maybe both, but Leonica felt her confidence steamer down a bit, along with waves of shivers that made her very much aware of the fact that they were now standing really close to each other.

Instinctively, she took a step back. Gabriel followed her, taking one of his own forward and staring down at her. “Now, give me a damn good reason why I shouldn’t see my son, or best believe me when I say I will find him...” He allowed the rest of his words trail off and Leonica hoped that they weren’t what she thought he was going to say.

“So don’t test my patience, Leo and tell me where I can find my son.” He cooed.

The shivering has increased now, but Leonica was more than certain it wasn’t fear. She had known Gabriel long enough to know when his words were actually threats. He was using a trick she had been so very accustomed to, a trick she had used multiple times in her own life, and one she could easily spot in someone else.

Her lips formed a straight line and she tilted her head up to meet Gabriel face.

With a smile, she spoke.

"I preferred you so much better when you were an asshole." She whispered and stepped back, allowing their closeness to end and her smile to disappear, a frown in its place as she finally got tired of playing the game of cat and mouse, before it even began. "I love my son, enough to make sure nothing makes him sad. I’ll have a talk with Ashley after school, explain the situation to him as best as I can, the rest is up to his reaction. If he’s ready, fine. If not, you’re not seeing him."

Gabriel’s eyes were on her the entire time she had spoken. His jaw was clenching and unclenching, the same way it did every time he was angered, something that she had become familiar with.

"I have a meeting to attend to, so I’d be taking my leave if that’s all." She said and turned around, about to leave when the feeling of the keychain in her pocket stopped her. She reached into her pocket and pulled it out. She stared at it for a moment, and then, turned around, catching Gabriel’s attention, who had been staring at her as she moved. "You might want to take this. Ashley got it for you." She held it out for him.

Gabriel took a glance at the object and felt his lips pull into a smile. "He did?"

Leonica nodded and grabbed his hand, putting it in.

"I’ll let him know you like it." She said as she stepped back, Then, without another word, she turned and headed for the door.