Chapter 103 The Inevitable Couldn’t Be Avoided.
The inevitable couldn’t be avoided, Leonica told herself over and over again, as she stood in front of the picture Gabriel had slid across the table, feeling like she had felt the day she revealed Ashley’s identity to him back at the hospital.
Gabriel, noticing her hesitancy to speak, spoke up. “You seem to be keeping a lot of things from me, Leonica.”
“I’m not.” She argued, gaze still glued on the picture while her mind tried to phantom about escape from the situation.
But, did she really need an escape? Leonica’s definition of escape, as she has learnt, is to complicate things more than they already were. But did she really need to do that right now?
What harm could it bring to come clean? The voice in the back of her mind questioned.
Yeah, what harm indeed?
The worse that could happen was Gabriel denying Ashley and finally cutting ties with them both, using his amnesia as an excuse. That sounded nice, until it didn’t and ended up leaving a sour taste in Leonica’s mouth and a rising bile that she tries to force down a couple of times.
“If you’re not, then tell me, who is that child?” Gabriel argued back, watching her with narrowed eyes. It was clear that the wheels in her head was spinning, most definitely trying to form what?
An answer? Gabriel questioned, not sure why she’d have the need to find or make an answer when it was clear to all, even he who had lost his memory.
Shit he was still trying to come to terms with.
A sigh from Leonica brought his mind back to the important matter at hand. He cocked his head to the side, watching her more intensely this time around.