After Divorce Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant (Leonica and Gabriel)
Chapter 76

Owen Lee.

The next day, Leonica sat in the comfort of her living room, loolding through the guest list for Ashley's birthday party. But truthfully, only half of her mind was on the task. The other half was wandering dangerously close to the conversation she had with Gabriel the previous day, more so, the words she had spoken to him

for some reason, reasons.

Now, the white-Ette was a hundred percent aware that Gabriel was a scumbag, she had experienced it firsthand, after all. But for s that she tried time and time again to ignore, she couldn't help but wonder if she had been too harsh on him.

Even an asshole didn't deserve such a beutal truth and she could have done a better job at selling it smooth to him, right?

*Ha," Sighing, she placed the guest list down and ran her fingers through her hair, cursing at her mind for thinking hard and long over something such as this, that she didn't even want to recall.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the door opening and shortly after, the housekeeper walked in, holding Ashley's hand, who had just been dropped off by the school bus. Leonica was quick to fist her expression the moment she spotted her son, putting a smile on her lips, rather than the frown that marred her expression seconds ago.

"Mommy!" Ashley skipped up to her with his signature grin, discarding his bag pack as he rounded the couch and jumped into her lap "I'm back"

"I can see that," Leonica giggled and planted a kiss on his forehead. "How was school?"

"Really interesting! You know Mrs. Fisher, my old Agric teacher?"

Leonica's face scrunched up slightly as her son addressed the woman, who truthfully wasn't older than forty-five, as old, but none the less, nodded her head. "Mhm, what about her?"

"Well, she brought a monkey to school today, but then, it got lose." Ashley ringled at the memory. "And... and she had to chase it all around the classroom and nearly-oh?" The child stopped his ranting as the paper on the table caught his attention. Especially when the words 'Guest List Were written in bold letters. "Mommy, are those the people coming to my birthday?" He asked.

Leonica followed the direction of his gaze and nodded upon seeing the paper. "Sure is." She adjusted him in her lap, making sure he was facing her directly before asking. "Tell mommy, is there anyone in particular that you would like to attend? Like a special guest?" "Hm?" The young boy pondered his words for a few seconds, finger resting on his chin. After a while, his eyes suddenly lit up and he exclaimed. "Oh, momummy, I want Bucky Bunny as my special guest"

"Sucky Bunny?" His mother questioned in utter confusion, eyes blinking numerous times

"Yeah," Without saying anything further, Ashley hopped off Leonica's lap and ran towards their Television stand. There he pulled out the drawer and retrieved what looked like a picture frame, before running back to his mother, climbing her lap and nearly shoving it in her face if she had not withdrawn her head. "Look, he's my favorite cartoon character."

Exarnining the picture right in front of her face, Leonica's eyebrows knitted. It was a white bunny, or at least a creature dressed in a bunny sult. Two pairs of elongated teeth that stuck out from the front of his upper lip, funny looking round ear, dark brown hair like weed and it had the height of a growing panda give or take.

'Gosh, where does he get his taste in characters from? Leonica thought, trying to hide how much the character and his wish worried her.

Suck Bunny, or whatever his name is, was a cartoon character, so how the hell was she supposed to get him to attend as a special guest?

"So, mommy, does Sucky get to come? Can he? Can he mommy?!

("Leonica smiled, unfortunately, it came off as more of a twitch than a smile. "Of course, he can."

"Of course,"

"Yay! I'm gonna tell all my friends at school!" Ashley rejoiced

"Please don't." Leonica had muttered underneath her breath as soon as he jumped off her lap

"Did you say something, mommy?

She shook her head. "Nope, nothing at all

"Alrighty. I'm gonna go shower now. Bye mommy." Ashley said and rushed towards the stairs. As he climbed the first stairs, he yelled at the top of his lungs for his nanny. "Grace! It's time to bath me!"

Less than a minute later, the older woman walked out of the kitchen, a gloom looks on her face as she began her journey up the stairs. Leonica telt for her, especially when she knew the type of baby demon, she gave birth to, along with how Grace looked over her shoulder, silently begging for an assist even though she was the nanny.

But well, she had her own problem to worry about.

Turing her attention back to the frame that Ashley left beside her, she picked it up and once again examined the cartoon character with a scowl Now how the hell was she supposed to make a cartoon character appear out of thin air in the space of less than a week? Less than an hour later, Leonica's trouble of sorting through the guest list and trying to replace a way to bring an animated character to life, was cut short when she received a call from Kennedy, informing her that their new brand ambassador was on his way to the compiery. As she was walking away from her car and towards the building of her company, mind somewhere in between Ashley's worrying request and the words she was going to say to the new brand ambassador, she suddenly bumped her shoulder against that of a rushing passerby.

"I'm so sorr-"The rest of her words were cut of as the passerby gently grabbed her hand and pulled her towards a wall, pressing her back against it and Jeaning in. "Hey! What..."

*Please go along with it, I beg of you." The stranger pleaded; his voice muffled by the mask which he was wearing. Leonica loolood at him with widened eyes, mouth opened slightly. However, the person seemed to have sensed her confusion as he added. "I really need this favor, so please, just play along"

She would have called the stranger crazy and ran her ass off, if he didn't look like a serious, desperate individual, Plus, the man seemed harmless, and judging from the expensive suit he was wearing, a wealthy one at that.

Plus, the last thing she needed was to try and play Merida, offend the wrong person and give herself more trouble than she already had, so she simply sighed and subtly nodded her head, causing the stranger to smile underneath his mask

He then reached out his hand and placed it on the back of her head, gently tilting it backwards before leaning in but stopping just before his masked lip could touch hers.

With the position they were on, one could easily mistake them as lovers malding out in the open

Before she could react, a group of chattering strangers rushed past, some carrying cameras and the others, cardboard cutouts.

A few of them stopped to scan the area and groaned. "I swear I saw him going this way. Where could he have gone now?"

"There," One of them pointed towards a dressing boutique. "I'm sure he must have stepped into there. Come on guys, let's go replace him!" With that, the mob rushed off in a different direction, their voices dimuning gradually as they went, all the while, Leonica and the stranger remained in their positions, silently searching one another's eyes.

Only when the coast seemed clear enough did he break eye contact

"I think it's safe now." The stranger said, retracting his hand from her head and once again offered her an eye smile. "You just saved me, thanks."

"I just what?" Leonica mumbled as her brain reeled, hoping that she hadn't just helped a criminal in his quest to escape

While she was deep in thought, her mystery stranger adjusted his suit and gave a princely bow. "I take my leave now, but worry not, we will meet again, Guseju." He said the last word in a foreign language that had Leonica muddied.

After a few seconds, she watched the stranger walk away, standing still in a befuddled state.

Firstly, what did he mean by "they would meet again'? And secondly, did he just speak Korean?

Leonica blinked her eyes a few times in confusion, walking almost mindlessly towards the entrance of her company while trying to process what had just happened.

As she entered, Kennedy immediately rushed up to her. "Ms. Romero, you made it. I was just thinking you got caught up in some personal affairs."

Seeing her assistant's relieved expression reminded Leonica of the reason she had even come to her company in the first place. She was here to meet with their new brand ambassador along with his agent and negotiate his contract with him.

"I apologize for worrying you. Are they here?"

Kennedy nodded. "Yes. They just arrived a minute ago.

"Alright. Let's go."

"Certainly," Kennedy said

Leonica walked side by side with Kennedy as they headed to the conference room. Upon entering, the first thing she spotted was the man she had seen Just seconds ago, only this time, the mask that covered half of his face was gone, revealing a dashing young man with golden yellow hair and golden hazel eyes

Leonica couldn't help but stop and stare at him, her eyes slightly narrowed as she recognized the face in front of her without a mask.

He was that one rising star in the entertainment industry that Anastasia fawned over constantly. Owen Lee, if she recalled his name correctly. "You're...him." she muttered.

"We meet again, Guseju. I delivered my promise as proposed" The blonde dipped his head in a subtle bow, grinning innocently when Leonica's eyes creased even more at the foreign name she was addressed with

see you already know Mr. Lee," The other man in the room, whom Leonica assumed is his agent, stood up and offered her his hand.

She took it, gently shaking his hand, but her gaze remained on the young blonde who was simply smiling at her. "Nice to meet you. I'm Mr. Lee's agent Alistair Goodman."

"It's a pleasure to meet you too. I'm Leonica Romero, the CEO of the company."