Chapter 198 I Really, Really Love You.
Gabriel learnt the hard way that it was harder to sooth the pain of a broken heart by just staying in his office and staring at the landscape of Oslo while hoping that Leonica would walk right through his office door and tell him that she was just pulling a prank on him.
The truth was, that wasn’t happening. Not anytime soon.
So here he was, sitting on a bar stool in a pub, drowning his sorrow away with alcohol.
The bartender had already given up on him, choosing to let the male drown in his own misery instead of telling him off.
Gabriel raised the beer mug to his lips, taking another sip, hoping that the alcohol would magically erase the fact that he had just screwed up and chased away the best thing that had ever happened to him.
His grandmother sure would be disappointed from up above, he chuckled at the painful truth.
Lilia has loved Leonica so much. On multiple occasions, when she had enough strength to move around, she would request that Gabriel come visit her in the garden, only to talk about how much of the ideal daughter in-law Leonica was.
And she was right, Leonica was the best daughter in-law, even after the she passed away and Gabriel seemed swarmed with work, she had been the one taking care the funeral preparations and still managed to take care of him at that moment.
A sigh escaped his lips as he placed the empty beer mug on the table and tried remembering when everything had gone wrong.
After a while, he could pin point the exact date through his alcohol blurred memory.
Everything had began going down hill the day he got a call from Angelina. She had just returned to Oslo after several years, but had no one to pick her up.