After Divorce, Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant-Chapter 110 Memory Flash.

It had taken Gabriel’s cry of pain only a few seconds to reach Leonica’s ears. She snapped her head around, a little too fast than she would like, and instantly rushed to his side when she found him clutching the side of his head.

“Gabriel, hey, are you okay?” She questioned, placing her hand on his shoulder to steady his body that looked like it was ready to turn rigid at any given moment from the wave of pain he was experiencing.

“Hey, talk to me.” She nearly barked at his silence, not liking it for one second longer when he remained silent, groaning in the obvious pain that he was experiencing.

What the hell was going on? Leonica thought, frantically searching his body, his face to be exact, for some sort of answer to her question.

The answer of question soon surfaced itself. But instead of coming in the form of words, a signal of him being okay or something opposite, it showcased itself in the form of a folded, line marked Polaroid camera photo of Angelina, laying peacefully on the floor after the brief havoc it had just caused.

A bile rose up in Leonica’s throat as she started at the photo and no matter how hard she tried swallowing, the lump of thick dread retained it’s position in the back of her throat, creating an uncomfortable feeling to go hand in hand with the rising feeling of dread in her stomach.

Even from behind bars, Angelina still found ways to create trouble in their lives. The thought was ironic and truthfully speaking, Leonica would have laughed ballistic at it, if only it had been someone else in this situation and not her.

In her hands, Gabriel looked like he was slowly recovering, but still groaned on pain every now and then and massaged his temple in a bid to ease the pain that had racked over his brain along with the flashes of white lights.

Slowly but surely, Leonica tore her gaze away from the picture and focused on the person who truly needed her attention.

“Hey, talk to me. How are you feeling?” She demanded, watching closely as Gabriel finally pulled his eyes open and met hers. *You okay?” She asked again and felt a weird sense of relief flood her when he gently nodded his head.

“God,” She breathed out, taking her hands off his shoulder and slumping into the open spot beside him.

Talk about jump scare, she thoughts while running a hand through her hair, pushing several lose strand out of her face and sighing out loudly.

Gabriel watched her for a few seconds. Between her relieved expression, the images that had flashes in a blurry haze in his mind and the dull ache and occasional pangs by the side of his head, he was at a loss of words.

After a few seconds however, he opened his mouth, deciding to go with the most suitable thing that crossed his mind.

“I’m sorry for worrying you.”

Leonidas turned to face him at the sound of his voice, she opened her mouth to respond, but paused.

Worrying her? Did she look like she was worried about him?

“It’s alright.” Came her response as she pushed the rest of her thoughts to the back of her mind. “What happened?” She asked even though deep down, somewhere in the back of her mind, she already knew the answer to her question.

Gabriel was silent for a few seconds, thinking hard about the answer before his eyes spotted the very same photo he had been looking at before the wave of pain racked over his body.

“This,” He bent down and picked the photo up, showing it to Leonica. Her expression twisted as her thoughts were confirmed. If he noticed the turn in her expression then he did a good job of ignoring it as he continued on. “I was staring at this and then sudden felt a wave of pain and it felt like something was trying to force it’s way back into my mind.” He explained.

Memories, Leonica thought. Bad memories, the voice in the back of her head added and she gently grimace at the obvious truth.

The memories that were trying to force their way back into his mind wasn’t ones of him and her together, neither was it of Lila, but Angelina.

Her picture alone was enough to trigger memories, unlike the hundreds of their they had looked at on the past hour.

Makes sense, seeing as she was the love of his life, the voice once again added and Leonica felt a tiny pinch in her chest.

“Who’s she?” Gabriel’s voice stopped the conversation between she and her brain before it could carry on any longer.

She glanced at the photo, face contorting into a scowl the moment her eyes landed on Angelina’s face and the innocent smile she held up for the camera while standing in the riverbanks of a beach.

She was beautiful, that much was undeniable, but her beauty was fake. She had a heart far too black to be forgiven and that was all that mattered to Leonica.

“A bad memory.” She sneered, the answer making it’s way out of her mouth before she could even stop to process it.

Gabriel shot her a look, wanting her elaborate more on her answer, more on the reason why said photo had caused his so much pain and each time he looked back at it, those brown eyes of hers looked so familiar.

Unfortunately for him, Leonica had thought and spoken too much of their love story. Any more and it would truly make her tongue feel like it was being rubbed against sandpaper.

Standing up, she changed the topic. “Do you need me to call Doctor Bailey?” She cringed at her question, cursing how caring it made her sound.

Gabriel was quick to take the hint that she no longer wanted to talk on the matter. Unsatisfactorily, he tugged the photo away, placing it someplace between the page of their own beach pictures and aquarium photos.

“No, I think I’m fine now, but thank you for offering.”

Leonica nodded at his answer and stuffed her hand into her pocket, trying to get the tingling feeling that has been stuck at the tip of her finger, somehow biting painfully at the tips, ever since learning that Angelica’s phot was the cause of his sudden memory flash.

Ah, she should have felt happy, relieved that something seemed to work in the process of helping him regain his memory and shortening the time she spent with him, but for some reason, she didn’t.

And it was because of Angelina.

Now, there was a word for the feeling Leonica was having, but she’d be damned if she ever acknowledged it, talk less admitted it out loud.

“Alright,” Nodding her head, she turned around and away from him, resuming the task she had been doing before his cries of pain. “Ashley, sweetie where are you!” She called out in the direction of the kitchen. “Sweetie we have to leave, you have school tomorrow and you need to get ready.” She called out a second time when he remained silent, but this time around, much to her relief, the small child appeared, Will following closely behind.

“Young master, please slow down.” Will tried to call out to him, but Ashley has reached his mother in seconds and wrapped his hand around her lower leg.

“Do we really have to go, mommy?” He whined.

Leaning down, Leonica used the pad of her thumb and wiped residue of ice cream off the corner of his lips. “How much Ice cream did you have?” She questioned.

Ashley gave a giddy giggle at her question, but quickly resumes his begging when he realizes he’s about to be separated from his infinite source of ice cream.

“Please mommy, I wanna stay. Can’t we just stay? I don’t mind skipping school for one day.” He begged.

“He can stay,” Gabriel’s voice sounded out from behind her.

Leonica willed herself to stay still even though every fiber in her body screamed that she needed to put distance between she and Gabriel.

“You both can stay.” Gabriel added, concluding his previous sentence.

At this, Leonica whipped her head around, about to refuse, but she went mute the moment she realized how close Gabriel truly was.

Why was he standing so close! All the warning signs in her head went red and she stepped back, finally giving them enough space to put those red lights at ease.

If she had lowered her gaze any later, she would have seen how flattened and for the briefest second, disappointment sipped into the edges of his always collected expression.

“No, we... we need to leave.” Leonica sputtered, taking a second to berate herself before adding in. “Ashley has school to prepare for.”

“I can have Bill drive him to school tomorrow.” Gabriel suggested.

“No!” Her answer came out rather too harsh and Leonica found herself grimacing when she caught Gabriel’s hurt expression. “That... that won’t be possible.” She found herself trying to quickly make up a cover story. “You can’t have Bill take Ashley because, we, you and I, we have to be somewhere... tomorrow.”

Gabriel shot her a raised brow look; silently questioning if she was hearing herself and Leonica slammed her eyes shut, praying that he’d just back off and let them go home before she made a mess of herself any further than she already has.

But then again, she could easily grab her child, which by the way, was still stuck to her leg like a koala, and briskly walk out. But that would make her look rather rude.

But, why should she care if she looked rude or not?

“Alright.” Gabriel said with a nod, choosing to buy her words even though it was painfully clear that she was just doing all it took to get away from him. “Buddy,” he turned his attention to Ashley. “Listen to your mom, go home.”

Ashley grumbled underneath his breath, but none the less, nodded his head in agreement.

For the second time today, Leonica felt a wave of relief wash over her and she quickly picked Ashley up, placing him by her side. “We’ll be leaving now.” She said and turned around, wanting nothing more than to step out of this accursed house.

But she had not gone more than a few steps when Gabriel’s voice stopped her. “Leonica,” She turned around to see him holding up his phone in one hand and a smile on his face that said ‘I’m not letting you go so easily on your lie’. “I’ll be expecting your call this evening.”

Without another word, she spun around and briskly walked out of the house, app the while mentally slapping herself with one thought rolling around in her head.

What are you doing, Leonica?