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

Not His Son.

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Those were the words that rolled into Leonica's mind as she had stared at the picture, bewildered.

Up until this point, she had prepared for anything, everything and probably the worst. situation, that Gabriel could throw at her.

She had placed contingencies after contingencies in place, even going as far as to reduce Ashely's Actual age, from four to three years old. She had taken several more steps to ensure that her baby, her son, was safe with her no matter what. Yet here she was, seating in her car, visibly panicking while driving to the location Gabriel had given her.

And why was that, or better yet, how had that come about? Simply because he sent her the photo of a paternity folder.

Now fake or not, Leonica wasn't about to test her luck. First hand, she knew how smart and not to mention, brutal, Gabriel could be. So if that folder was indeed genuine, then she didn't want to seat around and find out what he would do. And if it wasn't, then so be it.

Pulling into the drive of the restaurant Gabriel had demanded they meet at, Leonica stepped out of her car, giving herself a quick pep talk before meandering towards the entrance of the

restaurant.

"Good afternoon Ms. Romero." The attendant at the reception front greeted, bowing at the waist.

Leonica didn't bother asking how the said girl knew her name- after all, it was either she had seen her face some place on tv, or Gabriel had informed her of her arrival, the latter being having higher probability- instead, she followed her quietly to the reserved room in the back of the restaurant.

Inside, Gabriel waited for her, form composed and all as he tinkered on his phone.Owned by NôvelDrama.Org.

"Mr. Bryce," The attendant pulled his attention away from the device and towards her. His eyes only lingered on her for a second at most, when he noticed the person standing behind her. "Ms. Romero has arrived."

"Thank you." Gabriel vaguely smiled up at her, placing his device down and dismissing her for the time being.

The attendant bowed once more before exiting the room, leaving both of them alone.

Leonica eyed the setting, table and then the man seated at the table, not making any effort to

move nor talk

"I didn't expect you to actually come," Gabriel was the first one to break the silence after a whole minute of wordless staring and it was his turn, to look her over.

Under his gaze, shivers rippled through Leonica's body. Not because of the stupid effect he still had on her after five years, but because the way he stared at her showed her that he knew something.

She could tell from that same look that, That paternity folder was not a bluff. He knew the truth about Ashley's identity.

She gulped, internally cursing at the amount of power he possessed that had aided him in getting Ashley's identity figured out.

How exactly had he even done that? No, when exactly?

Those thoughts, despite the seriousness of the situation, caused her nose to scrunch.

Her moment of internal cursing and questioning was cut short when Gabriel reached into his Jacket's pocket and pulled out the same brown file he had snapped and sent to her, and slapped it on the table, causing her to flinch back into reality.

Her eyes gravitated towards the file, twitching at the sight, before finding their way back to Gabriel's face. "You being here means you read my message," He nudged the file. "Saw this, so I don't need to explain what's going on. I'll go straight to the point, Leonica, for Ashely's sake, I'm going to give you a chance to come clean to me before I hand this over to this over to the ministry of social affairs."

Come clean to him? Ministry of social affairs? His words made the corner of Leonica's lips twitch, so badly wanting to break out laughing.