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Chapter 17
He Was Aware Of The Child's Existence.
A deafening silence fell over the trio at Gabriel's words.
The only sounds that could be heard was the subtle melody of the music as the other attendants carried on with their night, not a care in the world for the silent battle that was occurring on the edge of the dance floor. The air had suddenly grown thick and heavy.
Leonica felt as though her ears were ringing, her heart beating so fast it was going to jump out of her chest.
"What...what did you just say?" She directed her question at Gabriel, who turned to her and smirked, the look on his face saying it all.
She had know him for five years, she was his wife, for crying out loud, she could read his facial. expressions and body language like the back of her palm.
He was serious and the silent look of 'You think I wouldn't find out?' he was giving her was. proof of that.
However, no matter how calm she was on the outside, on the inside, she was freaking out.
How had he know she had been pregnant five years ago?!
"What, surprised?" Gabriel's sarcastic voice filled her ears. "You must be wondering how," He paused and gestured his open palm in Christian's direction. "I have him to thank for that. He was gracious enough, as a friend, to check your medical records." Immediately after those words left his mouth, Leonica snapped her eyes towards Christian, her lavender orbs glaring deathly at him.
"You did what?" Leonica glared.
Christian was quick to hold up his hands in a defensive stance, a guilty look on his face.
"I can explain." He began, however Leonica interrupted him.
"Explain what? That you violated my private records without permission and gave them to HIM?" She pointed a finger at Gabriel. "Who the hell gave you the right?"
"As the Dean of the hospital, Christian had every right to run through the record of his patients." Gabriel interjected, earning a harsh glare from Leonica- that caught him off gaurd- as she looked his way. However, he did
ot back down, and added. "And at that time, we were still married. We had every right to go through your medical records, if not as the hospital's Dean, then it would been as 1, your husband.' "Bullshit that!" Leonica exclaimed, pissed by Gabriel's half assed reasoning.
Be it he as her husband, of the Christian as the so called 'Dean' of the hospital she had been. admitted to, they had no right to invade her privacy and leak information without her consent.
"We were in the middle of a divorce process. You had no right, legal or otherwise, to have access to my records." She continued to fume, Christian hanging his head low, while Gabriel quietly observed her body language. The way she was so pissed over the fact that they had accessed her medical data and confirmed her pregnant meant now thing;
She had been pregnant and she had planned on not telling him.
Gabriel clenched his jaws. "The baby, where is it?"
Leonica didn't say anything. Not because she enjoyed seeing Gabriel getting ruffled up, but because she was currently reworking answers and escape scenarios in her head.
She couldn't let Gabriel know that Ashely was in Norway...as a matter of fact, she couldn't even let him know the bundle of joy existed.
Seeing as her silence dragged on, Gabriel questioned once more. "The baby, Leonica, where is it?"
"Gone." She stated flatly.
"What?"
"I aborted it." Leonica lied, not feeling any remorse.
"Liar," Gabriel accused, taking a step towards her.
"Why would I lie?" Leonica questioned with firm determination in her eyes. "I didn't want the child of a monster such as yourself, so I got rid of it. That simple."
Gabriel's jaw clenched even more. His temper couldn't help but flare up after hearing what she had done. "I can't believe you did something so cruel! Did you not have an ounce of humanly instinct in you!"
"Cruel?" Leonica scoffed and stepped closer to Gabriel, deliberately jabbing her index finger into his shoulder the exact same way he had done five years ago: "Don't you dare lecture me about being humane when I was you who instructed your attorney to give me that oral contraceptive." She snapped.
"You have no right to question me. You have no right to come around and tell-me off, and your sure as hell have no right to judge me for my actions, because you, Gabriel Bryce, made it perfectly clear that you didn't want to have a child with me."
Gabriel opened his mouth to retort, however, the words he wanted to say seemed to be stuck
THe Was Aware Of The Child's Existence
in his throat, resulting in him clamming his mouth shut.
Leonica nodded. "Yeah, I thought so." She said and was about to walk away, but Gabriel called out to her.
"Leonica, wait," He stepped in her way, blocking her path.
"You must be kidding," Leonica chuckled, rolling her eyes. "Haven't you said enough?"
"1," Gabriel began, the word sticking in his throat.
He wanted explain to her that at the moment when he had order his attorney to give her those contraceptive, he hadn't been aware of the child's existence, had he been aware, he would have done things differently.