Both their gazes travelled in the direction. Now while ones eyes crinkled I'm confusion, the others became wide with joy. In a few seconds, the boy had jumped off the bench and raced towards the crowd before Gabriel could even react. "Mommy!" He called out as he opened his arms and rushes into the crowd.
The
group of men parted to the sides giving way to the child and in the process, revealing the lady in the center.
Gabriel nearly choked on his saliva when his gaze landed on the woman the child had rushed
into.
"Oh my baby, you nearly gave mommy a heart attack" Leonica said as she bent down and scooped The boy up into her arms, embracing him in a passionate hug.
While from where he stood, Gabriel watched the interaction between supposed mother and son, with an open mouth.
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His Child Is...Alive?!
With Mouth hanging open and eyes widening far beyond their capacity, Gabriel watched the scene in front of him play out like a sitcom.
Except it wasn't some channel television, it was real.
Leonica was a mother.
"Why did you leave the doctor's appointment, Ash?" Leonica, despite the scolding tone she had, pecked the young bow on his forehead. "Are you aware of how worried mommy was?" She asked, loud enough for Gabriel to hear, Indeed confirming his thoughts. That child belonged to Leonica...
But hadn't she said that she had aborted the baby five years ago?
So whose child was this?
Someone else's?
Not possible. The Boy, Ash as she had called him, had referred to her as his mother and she to herself as his mother.
So it was clear to him that This boy, Ash, was her child, so did that mean...she had another
child with another man?
The thought, as unusual as it was to pass Gabriel's mind, caused a storm of emotions to unleash inside, the strongest ones present being anger and confusion.
For some reason, just like when he had gotten home and learnt of her disappearance five years ago, Gabriel refused to accept the situation as it was. Unlike five years ago, he needed answers. And answers he was going to get.
Placing one foot forward, Gabriel had taken a defining step, mind set on confronting Leonica, when he suddenly felt a hand latch onto his upper arm from behind. Instantly, he whipped his head around, freezing the moment his eyes met with Angelina's
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"Gabe, there you are. What took you so long?" She questioned innocently, tilting her head and body weight, which was being supposed by a crutch, to the side. Seeing her face, the make recalled the reason why he had visited the hospital in the first place foregoing it after having ran into the child.
"Were you lost?" She questioned his silence. "Well that's fine, I'm here now. Let's go to my room." She offered.
Gabriel was reluctant. No matter how much he tried to not let it show, it was clear on his face. that instead of going with his finacèè, he'd much rather stay her and question his ex wife from five years ago
Angelina sensed this, thought not sure what was bringing about this new reluctance of his,
she did not like it.
Gabriel's attention was hers and hers alone. There was no room for reluctance even if it was business related.
It had been that way up until now and she wasn't going to allow that change.
Taking a step forward, the brunette pretended to slip on her crutches, nearly crashing into Gabriel. Fortunately, he caught her, steading her balance.
"I'm sorry," She apologized sheepishly, tugging the fallen locks of her hair behind her ears. My leg hasn't fully healed yet. Standing for too long, like this, isn't really wise. Come on Gabe, let's go back to my room." She grabbed onto his hand and began to pull him away, somewhat limping in her every step.
Gabriel pressed his lips together. He wanted to break out of Angelina's hold and rush towards Leonica, but that would clearly make him look like an unloyal fiance.
And Leonica, wasn't worth that type of stress.
But that didn't mean he was giving up on confronting her. She owed him an explanation and he was going to come back and get one.
"I'm sorry for worrying you, mommy," Ashley apologized, lips turned downwards. "The needles...they looked really scary." He admitted, although not too proud of his actions.
"My prince was really scared off by needles?"
Ashely nodded his head. "They all looked so scary. I had to run, but I ended up getting separated from my nanny." He continued to explain.
Leonica was just about to comfort her son, rather than scolding him any longer, when the boy suddenly perked up, gloomy aura completely gone.
"But then Kind Uncle helped me." He announced.
Leonica blinked her eyes in confusion. "K-kind Uncle?"
"Yeah, he's right there!" Ashely pointed towards where he had left the man that was with him.
However, when they both looked back, the bench and it's surroundings was empty.
"Huh? Where did he go?" Ashely questioned, craning his neck in different directions.
"Who were you talking about, Ashely?" His mother asked.
"Kind Uncle," The kid repeated. "He found me after I had lost the nanny and waited with me until
you came. He was here just a few seconds ago."
"Ashely," Leonica called out in a serious tone. "What did I warn you about trusting strangers?"
"Well......." He tried to defend his earlier action. Alas he settles for the only thing that came to his mind even when aware that it wouldn't prevent his mother's scolding. "Well he wasn't driving an ice cream truck. Neither did he offer me candy!" Leonica pinched the bridge of her nose with her free hand and sighed.
"Ashely, you still shouldn't have trusted him."
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"But he wasn't a clown, didn't have an ice scream truck and wasn't offering me candy."
"But he was still a stranger, wasn't he?" Leonica deadpanned.
Ashely opened his mouth to defend, however he saw no reasoning that could counter the warning his mother had given him.
In the end, he settled on a simple request, stirring some of the conversation's direction in the
process.
"Can we at least look for kind Uncle and thank him?" He questioned.
Leonica sighed, about to shake her head. "Ash-"
"Please. Please mommy. Please-" He begged, finger laced together and lips turned. downwards with sparkling eyes.
He was showing the puppy dog expression. A face that he was fully aware his mother couldn't resist and was using it to his full advantage.
Just like he had predicted, Leonica couldn't bring herself to say no. But, just when she was about to give in, her phone began to ring.
"Hold on Ash," She reached for the device, swiping on the answer Icon after confirming that it was Anastasia who had been calling. "Hey Annie, what's up?"
"The preparations back at Ashley's school has been sorted out. Could you tell the nanny to bring him over if they're done with the medical check up?"
"As a matter of fact, I'm at the hospital, with Ashely. Not the nanny."
From the other end, Anastasia sighed. In the short space of a week and a half since Leonica had returned, she had gotten to know that Ashely was a mischievous sould despite his innocent appearance.
And from the words of her best friend, she could already tell that Ashely had taken one look at the hospital's injection needle and turned into Scooby.
"Expected as much." She muttered. "You know what, forget the medical checkup. I'll handle. that here, how about you both come and do some final check ups, yeah?"
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'Alright. We're coming." Leonica said and hung up.
Turning her face to Ashely's, she pressed her lips into a thin line. "Ash, we gotta leave. Let's replace kind Uncle some other time, okay?"
The kid glanced back In the direction he had left said Kind uncle and although he didn't like the idea of leaving without saying 'thank you' he didn't want to mess up his school preparations.
Deciding for the best, he nodded his head to his mother's words.
Leonica smiled. "Nice. Let's go now." Her words were heard by the men, body guards to be precise, who had come with her.
Immediately, they turned around, leading her towards the exit.
However, with each step Leonica took, she couldn't help but look over her shoulder, feeling as if she had perhaps missed something important.
Inforption Data Breach.
Information Data Breach.
"... You know, seeing you lost was so unlike you. You had taken so much time, keeping me waiting...and getting me worried of course. Those are the two things you should never do to your fiancee, babe. Gabe, are you listening?" Gabriel, even though he had been addressed and it being courtesy for him to respond,
remained silent.
Currently, seated in Angelina's recovery wing and listening to her tattle on about how late he had been nearly an hour past when she had called the male's thoughts constantly strayed
back to a certain child and his mother.
Leonica and Ash.
His thoughts, ever since stepping into the recovery wing, had been filled with the two. The scene he had witnessed replayed in his mind. Thoughts of Ash being the child of
nother man taunting him.
Somehow, it felt those circling thoughts were driving him crazy, making him incapable of focusing on his fiancee in front of him, even when she hissed in pain each time the bandage around her ankles had been wrapped. "Gabe?" Angelina tilted her head to the side at his silent state. "Are you okay...?Ah!" She glared at the nurse who quickly bowed at her mistake.
As quick as the threatening expression had come on her face, it had disappeared before Gabriel
could even see it.
"I'm fine." He assured with a sigh, palm dragging across his face in an attempt to rid his thoughts of the mother and son duo.
His attempts however, were futile. Those two continued to plague his mind like a century old plagues that showed no sign of letting up until attended to.
And in this case, his attendance referred to the answers and explanation Leonica owed him. Answers that he needed to get as soon as possible so as to ease his mind.
Unfortunately he was being held up here.
Glancing over at Angelina, who was still in the process of having her ankle wrapped, and still had a long way to go before completion, Gabriel thought;
Perhaps, just this Angelina could stay without him.
"Ange," He began, rising to his feet.
"Hm?" The female responded.
"I've got a lot of business to attend to at the company. I've been holding up the board for the
past three days and need to attend to them as soon as possible."
"You're... you're leaving?" She interpreted.
"Unfortunately so." He walked over to her bed And placed a gentle kiss on her head.
Angelina relished in the feeling for only a little while before quickly snapping out. "But I need you here."
"I understand, but my hands are tied." Stepping back, he glanced over her, making sure the only injury she had sustained was her sprained ankle. Once the inspection was done and he was satisfied with the result, he continued. "I'll send Bill over with something for you. That designer bag from last time, how does that sound?"
Without waiting for her response, he turned and exited the room, speed walking back in the direction of the hospital bench he had been waiting with Ash.
However, when he got there, the halls were deserted, no sign of mother nor son.
Gabriel tucked his hand into his pocket and hung his head, a string of curse slipping pass his lips in the process.
"How fucking great, they're gone." He sighed. Feeling his frustration build anew, he scratched the back of his neck and repeated. "Just fucking great."
Now what was he supposed to do?
He considered questioning the hospital for the child's medical record, but upon remembering that he had come with his nanny and was probably registered under the name of an adult, that thought bubble was busted.
'Ah,' A newly changed bulb appeared at the top of his head, lighting up with new ideas.
Christian, of course he could get Christian to run medical tracks on the boy.
Reaching for his phone, Gabriel scrolled through his recent call list, about to phone his friend when he recalled the tensed conversation the had this morning and how Christian was so obviously taking Leonica's side. Who was to say he wouldn't do the same thing now.
Gabriel clicked his tongue in distaste, hating his friend's earlier action.
Focusing back on his phone, he continued to scroll, passing Christian's contact and instead calling that of his assistant.
If Christian was going to stand against his plan, then he could just easily have Bill gather as much information as possible on the boy.
The line rang for less than a minute before it was answered. "Yes Sir?"
"Bill, I've got a task for you."
Information Data Breach
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