After Divorce, Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant
Chapter 84 A Simple Misunderstanding.

Chapter 84: Chapter 84 A Simple Misunderstanding.

Between the fact that she was about hitting the daughter of Arvan Richardson, a man that she was well aware was not to be messed with and the death stare said man was shooting in her direction, more than enough to make her wish the floor opened up and swallowed her whole, Angelina to have realized the mistake she had committed while allowing her emotion get the best of her.

She had broken character and messed up, bad.

Her head snapped around, looking in the direction of the people who had gathered because of the commotion, whispering underneath their breaths and towards one another and then she looked behind her, where Gabriel and Leonica stood. The expression on Leonica’s face said it all, she wasn’t the least bit surprised about her three sixty change in attitude. Gabriel however, even though he wasn’t surprised, was left in a staring trance with a look of disbelief written over his face.

‘Fuck Angelina, you just had to mess it all up!’ She shut her eyes and cursed herself inwardly. ‘Think stupid, think! How can you fix this?!’

The answer to her question, unfortunately, didn’t exist. Everyone present had witnessed her actions and there was no excuse she could give. Sighing, Angelina decided to play her usual cards, pretending to be meek to gain sympathy. Although her mind warned her that those same cards wouldn’t work on Arvan like it did on Gabriel, she still went along with it, turning to face Arvan who was trying to sooth Daisy who had been crying ever since she fell into his arms.

“Mr. Arvan-”

“Richardson,” Arvan corrected sternly, looking at her through the slits of his lashes.

Angelina forced a smile but due to the tension and panic she was feeling, it turned out to be more of a twitch than an actual smile. “Of course. Mr. Richardson, I apologize, it was not my intention to harm your daughter. She was careless and ruined my dress, so I was just simply trying to... teach her a lesson for misbehaving.”

“Teach her a lesson? By what, manhandling her?” Arvan questioned, eyes darken at the thought of someone who was bold enough to hit his daughter.

“Of... of course not.” She lied, putting a meek tone in her voice to make it seem all the more convincing.

Arvan scoffed, convincing his ass. He had seen her true color which disappeared in the blink of an eyes, only an idiot would fall for a personally change like she had just done.

“Believe me Mr. Richardson; I would never hit a young child intentionally. This... this is all a simple misunderstanding.” Angelina continued on as a few seconds of whisper filled silence settled between them.

“A simple misunderstanding?” Angelina was quick to nod her head, forcing yet another smile as she watched Arvan pick Daisy up in his arms and rose to his full height. “Alright then.” he smiled, one that didn’t quite reach his eyes and looked anything but friendly, causing Angelina’s fake one to quickly crumble. “I’ll take it as that. Your dress will be compensated for, but mark my word, if Daisy here, develops any sort of trauma as result of your action here today, you will be held accountable. Understood?”

“S-sorry?” Angelina stuttered, her voice holding a breathless tone of fear. When Arvan didn’t bother repeating himself and stared at her with a blank face, her lower lip trembled with panic and in seconds, she snapped her head behind once again, locating Gabriel and shooting him a pleading look for help.

Unfortunately for her, and very much to her dismay, Gabriel turned a deaf ear to her plea. Instead of helping her like she had expected, he shook his head disappointedly, taking a few steps forward so that he was now standing in front of her.

Angelina shivered and nearly felt like bolting for the door. Normally, when in Gabriel’s presence, she usually felt safe, loved, protected and so much more. But now, none of those feelings lingered. All that she felt as she stood before him was fear, fright and a great presence that threatened her entire existence. Almost as if she was a prey who needed to run away this very moment to keep its head from the attacker.

But she didn’t run. Despite her limbs trembling with fear and the feeling of being cornered between Gabriel and Arvan, she stood her ground, barely raising her head to meet Gabriel’s gaze.

“What you did wasn’t right, Angelina,” He told her, unlike the previous times, he didn’t bother hiding the disappointment in his voice. “As an adult, you are meant to strive to set educative examples to the younger ones, not mistreat them. Apologize, now.”

Angelina’s lips began to tremble even more. This time around, it wasn’t fear or panic that was causing it, but rather anger and embarrassment. One, anger towards the fact that Gabriel hadn’t taken her side. He had disgraced her by doing so, tarnishing her reputation even more than Leonica had done in the past two months.

And two, embarrassment towards the fact that Gabriel had just asked her to apologize for something that wasn’t even her fault! While all these people were watching, Leonica especially.

Wasn’t his first action enough of a disgrace? Why did he have to go to such lengths?

“Angelina,” Gabriel called out in a dark tone, silently warning her that whatever thought she had about acting out, should be aborted instantly. “Apologize to Daisy. Now.”

Knowing that as it stood, the odds were clearly against her, Angelina clenched her fist in anger and willed her trembling body to turn around and move towards where Arvan and Daisy were. She barely forced her voice to become stable before speaking.

“I apologize for my brass actions earlier, please forgive me.” She apologized.

Daisy, still frightened by her action, didn’t seem to accept her apology. She turned away from Angelina and buried her face in her father’s suit, tightening her hold around his neck.

In that moment, Angelina felt like ripping the small parasite away from Arvan and beating the shit out of her. Who the hell was she to ignore her after she had just apologized?

“Don’t let today’s incident repeat itself.” Gabriel warned.

“Of course. I apologize once again.” Angelina said and subtly bowed her head, pretending to reflect on her shameful actions but burning on the inside with anger and hate. Beside her, her hands were clenched tight enough to cause her nails to draw blood from her skin.

Leonica who had watched the scene play out for far too long, could no longer afford to bear how stagnant the atmosphere was becoming at her son’s birthday party. Glancing between the whispering guest and Daisy who was still visibly trembling, she decided where to start solving the problem from.

First of all, she moved over to where Daisy was. “May I?” She asked gently, watching as Arvan nodded at her request and handed the smaller child over. However, just like she had done with her father, Daisy was quick to bury her head in Leonica’s shoulder, hiding her face. “Hey Daisy, there’s no need to be scared anymore. Daddy has taken care of the scary stuff and I’m here to make sure something like that never happens again.”

Daisy finally looked at her after hearing this. “R-really?”

Leonica nodded. “Really. So, there’s no need to be afraid, okay?” Daisy hesitated, but nodded slowly. Sensing that she was still somewhat scared, a normal reaction befitting of a child her age under such circumstances, Leonica tried even harder to make her feel better. “If it makes you feel better Daisy, would you like to join Ashley to cut his cake?”

“C-can I?” She asked, hesitant as before but it was clear that she wanted to be beside her friend while cutting the cake.

Leonica smiled and turned to beckon her own son over, catching Gabriel’s eyes in the process as he released Ashley to her. “Ash, would you like Daisy to cut your cake with you?” She asked.

Hearing this, Ashley’s eyes brightened up as if he had learnt of a new possibility. “Can she?”

“Of course, as long as you allow it.”

A smile bloomed on the child’s face and he turned to face Daisy. “Daisy, would you like to cut my cake with me?”

“Can I?” She asked once more. When Ashley nodded excitedly, she looked over at her father who smiled at her and gave a ‘go ahead’ nod. “I-if you allow it Ashley, I would really love to.” She said a smile of her own equally blooming.

“Of course,” Ashley said and offered her his hand. “Let’s go cut the cake before the nasty adults get to it.” He teasingly said and giggled while Daisy took his hand and wriggled her way out of Leonica’s hold.

The moment her feet hit the floor, she and Ashley raced in the direction of the cake table, giggling at the inaudible conversations they were having between themselves.

‘That’s one problem solved.’ Leonica thought and wiped off imaginary sweat drops.

From behind, Arvan gently placed his hand on her shoulder, giving it a gentle squeeze in a bid to gain her attention. “You also seem to know how to handle Daisy better than me. Thanks.” He said.

Leonica offered him a genuine and heartfelt smile. “What are friends for? Now come on, let’s go join them by the table before they eat the cake without cutting it.” She said and turned around; walking in the same direction Daisy and Ashley had skipped off in.

Arvan chuckled briefly before following after her. Gabriel, Anastasia and Lloyd followed suit and soon, the rest of the guests gathered around the table, ready to sing for the birthday boy and watch him cut his cake.

Ashley couldn’t have been happier. Having his mother, father, godmother and father and even grandparents, and not to mention his newest best friend, Daisy with him on his fifth birthday, was a wish come through.

As the guests sank and wished him a happy birthday, the boy took Daisy’s hand, placing it on-top the knife and placing his hand over hers before pressing it down, slicing the cake in half.

With the cake cut and shares dished, Ashley pulled Daisy by the hand onto the dance floor at the start of a slow music.

From the side, Anastasia chuckled as she watched them both clumsily get into position and try to sway to the rhythm of the song.

“What fun is it watching other people dance when you can step in there and show them your moves,” From beside her, Lloyd popped up, hand held out in a princely gesture. “Shall we, Milady?”

Anastasia chuckled, though it was meant to come out as a scoff. She smacked his hand away and folded hers. “In your dreams, Playboy.”

Lloyd chuckled at her actions, not in the least bit discouraged by it. Instead, he pushed on. “What’s this? Don’t tell me you can’t do a simple waltz.”

“That’s none of your business. And even if I can, I’d much rather dance with a frog, than a man like you who I’m sure has flirted with half of the world’s female population.”

“I’m honored that you recognized me as a frog, but just so you know, this frog right here turns into a handsome prince charming once kissed, by a beauty such as yourself.”

Hearing this, Anastasia cringed and against her will, a laugh escaped her lips. Her laugh sounded like a pleasant mixture of church bells and singing choirs. Lloyd suddenly thought it wouldn’t be bad hearing it every once in a while.

While yet another segment of Anastasia and Lloyd went on, Leonica watched from the side, pronounced smile etched into her lips.

Believe it or not, as annoying as Lloyd may sound, Anastasia looked happy when talking with him. Like she genuinely did, not the fake happiness she put up all the time. Even though it came at the hands of someone she wasn’t all too familiar with, Leonica liked seeing her best friend this way.

But she also couldn’t help but wish that Lloyd wouldn’t play with her friend’s heart and break it.

Knowing his reputation as an infamous playboy, perhaps she should break him before he does that.

Leonica’s shoulders shook as she chuckled at the thought and turned away from her friend at the detection of an approaching figure.

Point of correction, it wasn’t a figure, but figures. As in multiple. Gabriel, Arvan and Owen to be precise.

They all came from different directions and stopped in front of her one after the other after each person had asked.

“Would you do me the honors of granting me your first dance, Leonica?”

“Leonica, please grant me your first dance, would you?”

“Guseju, May I have this dance?”

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