After Divorce Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant (Leonica and Gabriel)
Chapter 51

question Lloyd had asked him before he...jetted out of the hou

Did he love Angelina or was he simply willing to spend his entire life with her simply because of a promise he had made to her sixteen years ago?

The former, he had tried telling himself, but each time he recalled the night back at Stellar's party- Leonica's body with his, her breaths, moan, taste- it all strangely felt...right.

To him at least. It felt, right, like that was how it was meant to be.

Like she was the one he was in love with.

But she wasn't right? After all, the person he was in love with was Angelina. She had saved him from that chilly lake and thus, deserved his love and affection...or so he has told himself for the last sixteen years. A long period of time, In which many things had changed.

Including his feelings.

"Damn it." He cursed silently under his breath and banged his hand against the steering wheel, momentarily swerving the car.

Luckily no one had been on the road and he was able to correct his mistake and focus back on driving.

Although he couldn't help but curse inwardly again.

Was it a mistake? His actions up until now?

Gabriel shook his head at the thought. No, his actions up until now have been...right. And

there was no need for unnecessary doubting, neither his feelings nor actions.

Ashely has been was proven to not be his son and Leonica, well, it was clear to him that she was moving on...no, she had already moved on.

Wasn't it only fair that he moved on?

He needed to get his head straight and stop allowing Leonica get into his head.

Five years ago, their relationship ended and there was no mending it back for them.

From this moment forth, he'd have nothing to do with them.

Or so he told himself. Yet less than twenty four hours later, here he was, staring face to face with the same mother and son Duo that he had sworn just the other night, to forget and move on from. What an III fated connection, but even so, it still was a connection.

Their never ending connection.

Hospital Encounter.

The next few days after her encounter with Gabriel had been blissfully uneventful.

Seating in the confines of her parent's outer garden, Leonica gently sipped on the tea Benjamin had just brought back from Malaysia, while watching various beautiful butterflies hover around the flowers.

Delightful, couldn't even grace how she was feeling. For the first time in a month and a half since Leonica had returned to Norway, she felt truly at peace.

Gently sighing out, Leonica placed the tea cup down and smiled as she caught wind of small feet meandering down her way in a Sprint. It wasn't long before her lower body on the chair was engulfed by Ashely's hug. "Mommy," The younger boy called out, tone somewhere between a whine and adoration for his mother.

"What have I warned you About running, Ash?" His mother asked, scooping him from the ground and into her laps. "Hm?"

"L...I wasn't running!" He quickly tried to defend.

However,

the moment those words left his mother, another figure stepped into the outside garden, panting heavily..

"Young master... Young master Ashely, you haven't finished eating your meal. Please come back." Grace, his nanny, called after him, searching the gardens for the small child who had quickly tucked himself close to his mother's chest. "Young master-" She was about to resume her calls when her eyes spotted Leonica and the young master. The latter staring at her in confusion. "Good day, Ms. Leonica," she greeted quickly, bending at the waist to accommodate a bow. Waving her greeting off, although acknowledging it, Leonica asked. "Grace, what's going on?"

"The young master refuses to finish his meal and ran off when I tried feeding it to him." She explained.

"Ashley, is that true?" Glancing down at the child in her arms, Leonica questioned with at raised brow.

"Veggies are bitter mommy." Ashely complained, lips forming into a frown.

Yeah, the norms for a child. Closing her eyes, Leonica sighed. When she opened them again, she waved her hand at Grace dismissing her with thanks.

"You can't keep skipping your veggies, Ash," Leonica told the child as she transferred him. from her lap into another chair.

"But they're bitter."

"You need them if you want to grow up healthy, Ash. Don't you want to be strong?"

"I do!" He piped up. "If I'm strong I can protect mommy!"

"Exactly." She tussled with his hair. "And in other for that to happen, what should you do?"

Her question, or rather, the answer to her question, quickly deteriorated Ashely's mood. He held his head low but still answered none the less.

"Eat my vegetables."

"Correct. So do you promise to do so?"

"I...i promise." He reluctantly agreed.

Leonica smiled to herself. "Good."

Recalling the real reason he had fun away from his nanny in the first place, Ashely wasted no time in changing the topic. "Mommy, can we please go out today?"

"Today?" Leonica questioned, watching as her son desperately nodded his head. Which was understandable since he had been indoors for the past few days, Leonica trying her best to avoid a repeat of what had happened. "Oh, well," She hesitated, trying to come up with another reason to keep the child inside, however failing.

Ah shit, she had used up all her reasonable excuses.

"Can we mommy?" Ashely pleaded, pulling the puppy dog eyes on her.

Leonica hesitated. Even if she was too agree to his request, where were they to go?

The answer to her question came as fast as changing a light bulb.

The hospital, they could go to the hospital.

Today was the day Arvan got discharged, a per the information Chloe had-begrudgingly- provided her with. It was the perfect opportunity to visit him as well as allow Ashely to see Daisy. Talk about killing two beds with one stone.

"Sure, let's go out today." She answered, making Ashley hop around excitedly before running off to get ready.

Leonica chuckled as she watched him rush away.

Yeah, going out with her son today was a nice idea. She'd be there with him so nothing bad could happen.

And Gabriel wasn't coming near them any time soon. All is going well.

It was two in the afternoon when Leonica had her driver take them to Midway International hospital, just around the time Arvan was being discharged.

Arriving at the hospital, the receptionist dare not repeat her previous action and quickly assigned someone, who gushed over Ashely all through, to take them to Arvan's room.

Only when they were in front of Arvan's door, did the female attendant stop gushing over the younger boy and take her leave.

Now left alone, Leonica turned to face the boy guards who were standing outside Arvan's

room.