Chapter 100 Visiting The Villainess.
“We once were, but now, we’re divorced.”
Gabriel stood by his window, glancing down at the small meaningless passing figures, all the while allowing Leonica’s words to replay in his mind as if it had been set on repeat.
Not a secondly longer had gone by after the last repeat, when he sighed and stuffed both of his hands into his pocket, leaning his weight slightly on the back of his heel.
Why was Leonica’s words disturbing him? No, why was he allowing her words disturb him?
Was it because of the familiar aura that surrounded her, prompting him to believe that they had indeed been married, but now divorced as she said? Or was it the fact that he found it challenging to believe that he had actually settled down with the very same woman his grandmother had picked for him?
That’s right, he remembered Leonica, at least he remembered what his memory allowed and that was the fact that she was the woman his grandmother had picked to be his wife in an arranged marriage between two families.
He recalled seeing her picture, the broad and dignified smile on her lip as she stood beside her parents, exhibiting nothing but elegance in the picture his grandmother had shown him.
That picture and the conversation that followed, had ultimately lead to an argument between them both. It hasn’t been anything too hot, but lasted a long time as each side of the party had their says and reasons.
Gabriel’s reason for refusing the marriage was that he still wanted to remain single, having the freedom he craved but was never given as a child when his parents insisted on locking him in the house, employing private tutors and any other form of interaction that was necessary in shaping him into becoming the fine heir his father needed.
His second reason was one that had stunned Lila. True love, honestly speaking, hearing a man like him rant over true love wasn’t something you saw on a daily basis, but the case was otherwise for Lila Bryce. Gabriel was a man who strongly believed in true love, the kind of love he had never seen his parents share. His final reason fell in line with his second. Gabriel believed because his parents were unhappy in their arranged marriage, always arguing and throwing hands, everyone involved in an arranged marriage was doomed just like that.
And that was something Gabriel wanted to avoid. As cool, arrogant and aloof as Lloyd and Christian dubbed him as, Gabriel cared immensely about his happiness and that of his future partner.