"Hey, this isn't your fault. Don't cry now." She gently soothed. "Your daddy's going to wake up soon, I'm sure of it, so please don't cry."
"B-but mommy, what if daddy wakes up and... And doesn't love me anymore." Ashley voiced out the fears he had held close to him for a while now His fears that his father would abandon him after his incident. "You can't say that, Ashley, and stop thinking like that. Your father loves you, more than anything else in the world."
"Even more than you?" He questioned.
"Especially more than me." She replied, not caring that it would be a lie.
Ashley's fears were slowly subsiding as he processed his mother's words. He was about to thank her when a nurse came into the room, informing them that Leonardo was here to pick Ashley as per the usual time.
"Go on ahead." She encouraged him. "I'll be with you at home as soon as I ensure your daddy's okay."
"You promise?" Ashley asked, holding up his pinky.
Leonica hooked hers around it with a smile. "I promise."
With the promise sealed, Ashley climbed into the bed, kissing his father's head goodbye before he hoped off and scurried away with th
When they had finally left, Leonica allowed her face to fall. She stared at Gabriel, the rise and fall of his chest the only sign et lite be luut
"If you don't wake up soon, I swear. Leonica passed, trying her best not to allow the tears gathering in her eyes to fall.
"I'm going to take Ashley and leave. And this time, you'll never replace us. So you better wake up soon if you don't want that to happen." She whispered and hung her head, chuckling wistfully at the fact that she was talking to someone who couldn't even respond Why won she suddenly becoming more stupid at heart with the days that passes by?
Three days had passed and Gabriel's condition remained unchanged. Seated in a cale with Owen, Leonica drank her coffee with little to no interest. It was the first coffee slie had had in day, yet she wasn't even enjoying it as much as she usad enjoyed her coffees "You've barely touched your coffee Owen observed, his eyes fixated on the untooched drink
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Either Leonica didn't like the fact that someone could so easily read her expression or the fact that Owen had spoken about Gabriel's condition, whichever one of the two it had been, suddenly caused her to feel irritated. "Why did you call me here, Owen?" She snapped.
"What do you mean why did I call you here?" He asked. "Can't hang out with my friend, who has barely talked to me for the past three days."
"I don't feel like talking. Now if you don't have anything better to say to me, I might just as well take my leave." She said and was just about to stand up when Owen brought out a small envelope and placed it on the table, passing it to her, "What's this?" She questioned. "A commission letter from Doctor La Croix and her team. I pulled a few strings and they agreed to take a look at Gabriel's condition. Help him to the best of their abilities." Owen explained.
"Oh," Leonica was stunned speechless. She had been trying to contact Amelie La Croix and her team for days but had failed. How come Owen was able to? She thought as she opened the letter and read through it confirming that it was indeed true. "You're a life savor." She said and looked up at him, the first smile in three days making its appearance on her lips.
Owen couldn't help but mirror the smile, and for a second, he felt a bit bitter about the fact that the smile wasn't meant for him "I'm always here to save your ass, so you better remember that." He teased, his words earning him a chuckde.
"I will, and I'll always be there to save yours." She countered.
"You better," Owen said and watched as her eyes shifted back to the envelope, the smile disappearing the moment they did.
"Why do you love him? He blurted out, the sudden question catching Leonica off guard.
She looked at him with a confused gaze. "What?"
"Why do you love him?" Owen repeated. "Because I'm trying to understand. From what I've seen so far, all Gabriel has done is make your life a living. hell, yet you still choose to stick with him even when you don't." Chuckling, Leonica placed the letter down. "I think you're mistaking. I don't love him."
""You don't?"
"Nope."
"Then why did you save him?""
"Cause, that's what people who are good are supposed to do, right?" Leonica replied. "They're supposed to help those in need, and I know for a fact that Gabriel's a person who's in need of help. So I helped."
"So you're telling me, that if someone else had been in the house, instead of Gabriel, you would have gone and save them, regardless of who they were." Owen challenged, but before she had the chance to answer, her phone began to ring. Picking it up, her eyes widened in panic the moment she saw the name on the screen.
It was the hospital.
"Excuse me for a minute." She quickly said and rushed outside. "Doctor Bailey? Talk to me." She said upon answering the call.
"Ms. Romero, 1 have good news and bad news. Which would you care to hear first?" The doctor questioned.
Leonica hesitated, but went tackled the question the usual way she did. "Good news?"
"Great! Good news; Mr. Bryce's condition suddenly for better today and he woke up." Leonica's e
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eyes widened and a weird sense of relief flooded in her chest. But it was quickly short lived.
"Bad news, he seems to have developed partial amnesia, causing him to forget all of the events that has happened as of recently." Son to Claim Your Surprise Hemant
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