Chapter 50 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?"
"I...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?"