After Divorce, Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant
Chapter 74 No Future For Us.

Chapter 74: Chapter 74 No Future For Us.

“It didn’t belong to me,” Leonica knitted her brows at Gabriel’s outburst.

What was he going on about now?

What the hell didn’t belong to him?

“What?”

“The child Angelina had been carrying... it didn’t belong to me.” Gabriel repeated, more clearly this time around.

Swallowing thick, he awaited Leonica’s reaction, surprised to see that she was looking surprised. Of course, she was! Heck, who wouldn’t be?

After nearly a month of believing that Angelina was carrying his child, he suddenly spilled the beans, saying the child didn’t belong to him.

How exactly does that work?

“Why... why are you telling me this?” Leonica asked once she was able to shake the surprise off. “What do you hope to gain by doing this?”

“I...” Gabriel began, only for the rest of his words to die on his tongue. He had no valid reason for telling her what he just did.

In all honesty, it was a spur of the moment reaction to stop her from walking away. But obviously, Gabriel wasn’t going to admit that. But to himself and her.

This decision of his ultimately led to minutes of silence, minutes in which Leonica’s brain worked, piecing things together, true or not and then, she scoffed, coming to a conclusion of her own.

It was obvious, in this case, to her alone, that Gabriel was pulling one of his usual tricks. Trying to play the role of a sweet asshole in hopes to jump his responsibility towards Angelina’s pregnancy.

“Ha, you don’t ever change, do you Gabriel?” Pulling her hand free, this time she pulled away with much force than she had previously done, intending to show how much his tricks irritated her.

And her message was well gotten, well, halfway gotten. Gabriel understood the fact that she was angry at him, but he didn’t know what made her angry at him.

Left for him, some part of his mind had been singing with one tiny little voice, trying to convince him that Leonica would be glad in the tiniest bit to hear the news.

But she wasn’t. She didn’t look the least bit pleased, instead she looked somewhat... disgusted?

“You’re still the same as you were five years ago. You only ever keep people around when you need them, however, the moment you no longer need them, they become useless to you.”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“Do you really need to ask? I’m damn sure you know what I’m talking about.” Leonica retorted, sighing at the end as she attempted to keep her temper from spilling over.

Not here. Not now, and certainly not for him. Gabriel Bryce wasn’t worth a drop of her spit.

“You can pretend for all you want; I don’t really care.” She shrugged. “And I don’t really care whose child Angelina was carrying, never mattered to me before and wouldn’t matter to me now.” She gave him one final explanation before turning to leave but recalling one last thing she needed to say to him. “Oh, and do yourself some good; don’t get any ridiculous idea into that head of yours. My visit here was only to make sure Angelian wasn’t... well, dead. So don’t go thinking I came all the way here because I’ve got some ridiculous obsession with you. It’d be a shame for a man such as yourself to entertain such... deplorable thoughts, alright?”

Completing the last of her words, she flashed him that same, cold and indifferent smile that never quite reached her eyes and turned around walking away and never for once looking back.

Now, Gabriel would be a damn lair if he said her words hadn’t stunned him. And he also would be a liar if he says for a second, he could have ignored the look of disgust swirling in Leonica’s eyes.

He couldn’t. And for the first ever time, a thought crossed his mind.

‘Was he really that much of an asshole?’

Mind preoccupied by his thoughts, Gabriel failed to hear the approaching footsteps, and only when the dumpling looking youngster was in front of him, waving her hand and calling his name, did he snap out of his trans like haze.

“... Mr. Bryce, can you hear me?”

Blinking a few times, he recognized the female in front of him was none other than Angelina’s agent. Riley Grant.

“Riley,” He finally acknowledged the girl’s present, resulting in an innocent beam akin to Angelina’s own.

However, knowing the type of person Angelina now was, Gabriel wondered if it was alright to keep a truly pure soul like Riley around her.

The answer to that question came as quickly as the question itself had come, convincing Gabriel that the steps he was about to take were the right ones.

“Hello Mr. Bryce. Are you by any chance here to see Ms. Fernandez?” Riley questioned.

“Yes. I assume you’re also here to do the same?”

“Correct!” Riley shot a handgun at him.

Nodding his head, Gabriel suggested. “Well, let’s go together.”

“Of course, Mr. Bryce. After you.” She pointed her open palm in the direction of Angelina’s room.

Gabriel turned around, journeying down in the direction, Riley beside him, for only a few minutes before they stumbled upon the familiar door.

One knock on the door and he slid it open, quickly locating Angelina beside the trash bin, trashing the fruit basket Leonica had brought for her. unbeknownst to Gabriel’s knowledge.

The moment Angelina saw Gabriel, her expression became meek, demeanor returning to the lily flower she had portrayed as her public image. “Gabe, you came.” She smiled innocently at him.

“Hello Ms. Fernandez,” Riley bowed her head, brown bungee curls following her movement. “I... I brought you a fruit basket.” The female raised the assortment of fruits, which Gabriel only just now realized she had been carrying.

“Oh, Hello Riley,” Angelina smiled at her agent.

Less honestly, Gabriel could instantly tell.

Weird if you asked him, seeing as ten hours ago, he couldn’t even differentiate a truth from lie when it came out from her mouth.

Watching her, she stepped forward, retrieving the basket from Riley and examining it for a moment. “Ah, what a lovely basket. Thank you, Riley. I’ll cherish it.” She plastered yet another fake smile of hers onto her lip.

After placing the basket down, she turned to face Gabriel, her smile switching over to the genuine side. “Gabe, I called a number of times last night, why didn’t you pick?”

“I was busy,” He answered vaguely, moving from where he stood by the door and sinking into a nearby couch, while Riley nervously fidgeted, unsure of where to go. “We need to talk, Angelina.”

“Oh? What about?” She questioned, brows knitting when Gabriel pointed towards the second couch. Without much delay, she took her seat, sensing that the topic at hand must be serious.

Talk about their marriage, she hoped.

“What...what is it Gabe?”

“... I’ve made several arrangements with a recovery home in England, for you Angelina. They’re going to make sure you recover to the best of your abilities and cater for your every need while you’re there.”

“What?” The smile on her face began to fade once she heard this. But for some reason she didn’t want to think the worst. “That... that’s great. So, when are we leaving?”

Gabriel shook his head. “Not ‘we’, Angelina. Just you.”

Now the smile completely faded. “What? You’re... you’re sending me away?”

“Exactly.”

“Gabe... Gabriel-”

“Ms. Fernandez, pardon my intrusion, but I actually think it’s for the best,” Riley spoke up and presented her tablet to Angelina. “The press had been on you a lot lately. Being gone from the spotlight for a while can be a good thing.”

Angelina nearly glared at the agent who was spitting nothing but obvious facts. “Riley, please step outside for a moment, I’ll like to talk with my fiancé, privately.”

“As you wish, Ms. Fernandez.” Riley said with a bow and exited the room.

As soon as she was gone, Gabriel spoke. “I’d advise you to stop calling me that.”

Angelina’s brows knitted at his words, and she strained a chuckle. “You’re kidding right, Gabe? You’re not going to send my away and you certainly aren’t having thoughts of breaking off our engagement, right?”

Gabriel remained quiet as she spoke, only mustering a tired and long sigh at the end. “Angelina, answer me this one question; what do I hate the most?” He questioned and while the brunette was racking her brain, trying to come up with a suitable answer, Gabriel raised his head, keying his eyes on hers. “Betrayal, Angelina, the answer is betrayal.”

Angelina’s eyes trembled and yet another strained chuckle escaped her lips as things were becoming clear to her.

Gabriel knew something... no, he knew everything.

And the aftermath of that, was simple and Obvious. Gabriel was going to end their relationship.

The thought, about to become reality, instilled fear in Angelina. The type of fear that she only ever felt each time her position as Gabriel’s fiancée was threatened.

Except this time, it wasn’t being threatened by anyone, her fiancé himself was about to strip it from her.

Shaking her head from side to side, she said. “Gabriel you... you can’t do this. Have you forgotten how hard I’ve saved you? I saved your life Gabriel, so you have no right to do this.”

“That you did, and for that, I have forever been grateful.” For the first time ever, Gabriel bowed his head to Angelina. “And it was also because of that I loved you, but Angelina, I don’t love you anymore.”

Those words completely shattered Angelina’s heart. “What did you say, Gabriel?”

“I no longer have feelings for you, Angelina. I’m certain and if we were to try and force this... us,” He pointed his finger index between them. “Then without a doubt we’ll only end up going down a path that has no future for us, Angelina.”

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