After Divorce, Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant-Chapter 109 My Ex Wife Is A Klutz.

Stepping into the four walls of the Bryce mansion for the first time in five years, felt foreign to Leonica. Her eyes wandered the familiar interior while she looked around like a child who had been lost in a wave of busy Monday adults.

Everything was the same even after five years, she noted, walking further into the house as Ashley pulled her by the hand.

“Mr. Bryce, welcome home.” The butler, who she quickly recognized as Will, the very same butler whom Lila had transferred from underneath her to look after she and Gabriel during their first year of marriage, greeted with a polite bow. His eyes was quick to widen the moment they landed on her. “Madam,” he uttered with a breathy tone of disbelief.

Leonica could only force a smile under his disbelieving gaze, however, it soon turned genuine as memories, find ones at that, flashed in the back of her mind.

“Glad to see you’re doing well, Will.” She said, tipping her head in a small bow to acknowledge his presence.

“You too, Madam.” The butler responded, missing the way Leonica shifted as he had addressed her by her old title, as he turned to face the small of the trio. “Oh, and you must be young master Ashley,” his words came off as a sentence rather than the question it was meant to be. “pleasure to meet you.”

Ashley giggled cutely as the butler bowed curtly at him, but none the less, his greeting was returned. “Hello Mr. Butler.”

Smiling at the child’s way of speaking, Will turned to face his employer, about to question how he was feeling after waking up from a three weeks long sleep coma, when he noticed something felt different.

Was it his gaze? He thought, briefly trying to wrap his head around what seemed so different in his employer. Or perhaps was it his aura?

Definitely! That definitely was it, because the once threatening and serious aura that had surrounded Gabriel had visibly reduced, making him seem the most approachable Will has ever seen since he had started working in the Bryce mansion.

Gabriel who noticed his staring, didn’t hesitate to question. “Is everything alright?”

“Yes, everything is fine, but...” He hesitated. Leonica seemed to have noticed when he was coming from or rather, the cause of his strange behavior.

Silently, she beckoned him a few steps from where her ex husband and son stood.

“Is Mr. Bryce alright? He seems, different.” Will asked, not wanting to do right off the bat and think that Gabriel has suddenly decided to change his ways after a near death experience.

People just couldn’t change that fast, at least to his knowledge.

Leonica glanced at Gabriel and Ashley, Gabriel to be precise, before she opened her mouth to speak.

“He’s fine, but, he sustained a couple of severe injuries during the fire and that least to amnesia.” She explained.

Will’s expression quickly portrayed how shocked he was to hear the news, at least the latter part of the news. Taking a moment, he cursed Angelina, because from what he has heard, information from Lloyd and Christian who have been frequenting the estate for the past week, the young master, Ashley, had been kidnapped by Angelina and in a bid to rescue him, Gabriel had gotten hurt.

Now, no matter how cruel Gabriel may have grown to be, Will had been at the Bryce main mansion, with Lila, Gabriel’s grandmother, for as long as he could remember, so it was safe to say he had helped raise Gabriel. He knew the sweet and kind boy Gabriel has been despite his parents harsh treatment and conditions to be met for successor. He had also witnessed his joy and sorrows, regrettably latter more than the former.

So, to hear that someone who he saw as a son had been put in danger, by the person he loved, the very same woman he had tried warning him about, was something that angered Will.

After a second of ranting in his head, and best believe it, making a mental note to chase Angelina with a stick broom if he ever saw her, the older male spoke.

“That’s bad, sad even. Did the doctors say when his memories will come back?” Leonica shook her head at his question. “So, what exactly does he remember?”

“Not much,” Leonica said and stole a glance in the direction where Gabriel and her son was, only to find them missing. Soon, however, she located them on the couch, Ashley happily seated in his father’s lap. “The doctor says he lost ten years of memories.” She further explained after peeling her gaze away.

“Ten years,” Will pondered over the information, something clicking in the back of his mind. “Does he know...”

As if sending the Butler’s fear, Leonica nodded. “Yes, he’s aware of Grandma’s death. I explained it to him.”

Heaving a quiet sigh, Will nodded while Leonica explained the much needed information in the next couple of minutes. When she was done, he nodded. “I understand.”

And with that, they returned to the father and son duo. Gabriel looked up from the tablet Ashley was holding on his lap when he felt her presence.

Well, it wasn’t just her presence he felt. He smelt the familiar smell of roses the closer she came.

“Mr. Bryce, welcome home once again.” Will greeted in a more polite manner.

Gabriel moved his gaze over to Leonica, almost missing the look she gave him while engrossed in scanning her facial features.

The look she had given him said; ’I explained it all.’

Nothing more, nothing less.

Understanding, he directed his gaze back to Will and smiled. “Thank you, Will. I look forward to your care in the coming days.”

The smile on the older male’s lips increased. “Certainly!” He exclaimed.

“Oh, Will,” Leonica called out to him when it seemed like he was about to leave.

“Yes, Madam?”

Once again cringing at the title, she asked. “Would you happen to know where the photo albums were kept?”

“Of course.” He said and turned around, pointing up the stairs. “Mr. Bryce stored all the photos in the last room by your left down the hall.” He informed.

Nodding her head, Leonica smiled. “Thank you.”

“My pleasure. Would you be needing anything else?” The question was directed towards all three of them.

While Gabriel and Leonica shook their heads, Ashley piped up. “Ice Cream, can I get that?”

“Most certainly.” Will answered with a nod.

Seeing an opportunity, Leonica suggested. “Uh, Ash, why don’t you go along with Will so that he can give you as much Ice cream as you want.”

“Okay!” The child said and hopped off his father’s lap. Before he embarked on his journey towards the land of ice cream, he turned towards his parents one last time and asked. “Should I save any for you?” freeweɓnovel.cøm

Neither Gabriel Nor Leonica knew how best to interpret that question. Should he save any for them, as in he was planning to eat the entire House’s ice cream stock?

“No, I think your mother and I are good, you can go ahead and enjoy yourself.” Gabriel answered and with that, Ashley linked his hand with Will and disappeared soon after into the kitchen.

Once they were alone, he turned to face Leonica who was trying to process a new question in her brain.

Why did Gabriel even have ice cream in his house? Booze and wine, sure she could understand, but ice cream?

“What are you thinking about?” The sound of his voice snapped her out of her thoughts.

“Nothing.” She denied.

“Nothing? Or were you surprised by the fact that I have Ice cream in my house?” He questioned, rising a brow at her as she became speechless. “Well, you’ve got to enjoy life no matter how old you are.” He added.

“Not you. You didn’t do stuffs like that.” Leonica muttered as she stood up, but Gabriel heard and his brows knitted, once again wondering how different he had grown to become from the version of himself he knew.

“That’s aside,” He said, pushing the subject aside before his thoughts could spiral further than he liked. “Picture Album? What for?”

“I promised to help you regain those memories of yours, didn’t i? And the easiest way to approach the situation...”

“Is by looking back at old memories.” Gabriel completed her words, earning a nod of agreement from her as she walked towards and soon, up the stairs. It didn’t take long before he was up on his feet and following her.

Following the direction Will had given her and her ostrich like memory, Leonica found the door to the room and pulled it open. The inside was dark, windows clothed by curtains of deep dark colors and lights switched off. She fiddled around for the switch and turned on the light as soon as she found it.

The bulb flickered to life, eliminating the darkness and stunning Leonica with what she saw.

The room where Will had said pictures wasn’t just filled with pictures, but much to her surprise, also her belongings.

From boxes of familiar looking shoe brands, to her travelling bags, outing bags and clothes that she spotted from the gap if the opened wardrobe.

“This,” She took the first step inside, gee voice sounding breathless with disbelief as she scanned her surroundings, seeing more and more of the things she had left behind dive years ago.

From behind her, she heard the sound of Gabriel’s footsteps stopping by the threshold of the open door and spun around to face him.

“You... didn’t get rid of them? Why?”

Gabriel’s eyes glided over the belonging at her question before settling on who he suspected was the owner and despite this, asked. “Do they belong to you?”

His words were like a pin poking a fully inflated balloon as Leonica quickly remembered that the person she was asking couldn’t answer her question.

Peeling her gaze away and concealing the look of surprise that had overtaken her face, she spoke. “Yes, they do. But that’s not important now. Where did Will say the pictures were again?” She questioned herself underneath her breath, tearing through a few brown carton boxes before she spotted the dusty looking photo album.

“Ah ha! Found you!” She exclaimed, turning around to show the object to Gabriel, however suddenly bumping into him.

The impact coupled with the fact that she had tried to instantly get away from him, caused her to titter backwards, certainly about to fall, when Gabriel wrapped his arms around her waist and steadied her.

“Out of all the things, I definitely didn’t expect my ex wife to be a klutz.” He joked, the sent of his peppermint breath hitting her lips hard as he chuckled.

It was definitely the close proximity and not his handsome face, Leonica thought as she felt a wave a shivers rip through her body and prayed that the sound of the rusty old fan on the roof blanketed the sound of her heart sudden turning up its gear.

“I’m not a klutz,” She mustered, making sure her footing was steady enough before she fought her way out of Gabriel’s arm. “You suddenly appeared behind me, what was I meant to do in a state of startle.” She stated what she believes was the obvious while and walked away while Gabriel remained where he was rubbing the past of his fingers together.

It was hard not to do something like that when thinking about how perfectly Leonica ‘s tiny frame had fit with his. And her face up close, sure, he knew blondes were his thing, but fuck was Leonica gorgeous.

“You coming?” Leonica asked from the door after noticing that he had remained still.

The sound of her voice was enough to snap him out of his thoughts. Pushing the words of his shouting mind at him to try and take Leonica in his arms once more, to the back of his head, he nodded and walked after her.

“Yeah, let’s go.”

In seconds, they were back in the living room, seated in the same couch to better see the photos.

Leonica pulled out the first album, a series of pictures from a year before they were married. The engagement, or rather, courting phase, as Leonica would like to call it.

Lots of photos had been taken during that time as Gabriel was still oddly nice to her. He agreed to go places with her, Lila sometimes tagging along and even has romantic meals with her. During those times, they made sure to have photos taken to show Lila.

But a slowly, the sweet times came to an end.

Pushing her thoughts away, Leonica opened the album and they began to look through it in silence. Thirty minutes passed with nothing Positive.

Calm yourself, Leonica thought, knowing very well that the process wasn’t a one time thing.

An hour passed and she was still with the same result. Her phone dinged, stopping her from grumbling about the less effectiveness of this method.

She reached for it and drowned when seeing that it was a message from Kennedy informing her that the CAC for the new company branch was ready and needed her approval immediately.

“What is it?” Gabriel questioned after catching her expression.

“It seems like I have to go, company duty.” She said and despite the voice in Gabriel’s head telling him for object, he nodded. “Ash, Ashley we’ve gotta leave!” she called out to her son, closing the photo album and standing up.

As she did so, a photo slipped from between the page and landed on the floor. Gabriel spotted it before Leonica did and reached for it.

Picking it up, his brows narrowed at the female with dark hair in the picture. For some reason, it seemed like he had seen her before.

He narrowed his eyes, staring harder at the photo, however he was soon met with a wave of painful headache that caused him to drop the photo and grab his head.

“Argh!”