After Divorce Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant (Leonica and Gabriel) novel Chapter 221

Billy?!

Leonica was stunned speechless, eyes wide as she had not expected to see the male here, or anywhere as a matter of fact.

"Bill..." She managed to speak after a while, her brain still trying to process what he was doing by following them. "What are you doing here? No, why are you following us?"

Owen turned to his fiancée with raised brows after hearing her address their follower by his name. "You know him?"

"He's Gabriel's assistant," The words effortlessly rolled off Leonica's tongue as she still tried to understand what was going on.

Was he working for Jamil? Was that why he was following them? She felt a surge of anger spike within her. Of course Jamil was one to pull a stunt like this, turning those who you least suspect to his favorite weapons.

"You," Stepping forward, she stared him down with a cold gaze. "Speak, why are you following us?"

Billy, who was currently looking like a deer caught in head light, opened his mouth, and then closed it again.

"Speak, Billy." Leonica demanded, taking another step forward.

"I, I-uh," He stuttered, eyes shifting from her, to Owen and back to her. "It's, I'm not..."

“Stop blabbering.” Leonica hissed. “You know, I’m not a very patient person, so either you give me a straight answer, or else.”

Oh how he knew that and how he wished to give Leonica a straight answer, but his hands were tied here. If he were to give her the answer she wanted, that’d mean him betraying his boss and if he didn’t, from the look in Leonica’s eyes, he was sure that he’d not make it back to report to his boss this night.

“You’re time is running thin, Billy and honestly you don’t have a lot of it, so I’d be wise if I were you. Tell me, Jamil sent you, didn’t he?" She questioned, but Billy continued to avoid her gaze, contemplating between the options he had.

“Look, Billy, or whatever your name is,” Owen began, making sure to show a display of the pipe even though he wasn’t going to use it. “I know things right now must seem like you’re at a crossroad. Speak, or not speak, which road shall you take? Honestly there’s only one, and that is to speak. You have no choice but to tell us why you were following us. It’s not like you can deny.”

Billy glanced at him, and then to Leonica and but still chose to remain silent.

And that’s when Leonica snapped. “Perhaps I should have your father arrested for the illegal gambling he’s been doing all this years.” As she made a show to reach for her phone, Billy panicked.

“No, don’t do that. I’ll talk,” He pleaded, eyes filled with realization that the situation was out of his hands. “I’ll talk.”

“I’m waiting.”

“I wasn’t sent by Jamil Vanadas,” He paused, trying to find a way to say his next words while Leonica chose to ignore the fact that Billy knew who Jamil was yet claimed to not have been sent by him. “The person who asked me to monitor you is…” The rest of his words trailed off as he mumbled lowly underneath his breath.

“Who was it?” Leonica demanded, not bothering to hide her annoyance.

“Mr. Bryce, it was Mr. Bryce, who asked me to monitor you.” Billy answered and Leonica felt like someone had just poured a bucket of ice water all over her.

“What?” She asked as a new wave of confusion hit her. “Gabriel did what? And why?”

Billy wanted to withhold information, but for some reason, he felt like telling Leonica everything would be the best course of action. And besides, he was sure to lose his job, why not screw Gabriel over.

“About two months ago Mr. Bryce visited Ms. Fernandez in at the female city prison,” He began, just starting the beginning of the explanation that he was sure would piss Leonica off. And just as assumed, her brows knitted together at the mention of Angelina’s name.

Why had Gabriel gone to visit Angelina?

“But when he returned he was acting strange, much like the way he acted before the fire accident.”

Leonica’s eyes twitched. “What?”

“He acted the same, almost as if he hadn’t lost his memories in the first place, but that wasn’t what worried me, it was his sudden interest in you. He requested that I keep tabs on you, monitor you and report to him every week and would occasionally ask me to look into your family.”

“What?” Leonica’s tone was low, and her expression blank. She wasn’t quite sure how to feel, no scratch that, she sure as hell knew how to feel, it’s just that her emotions were currently being delayed from the news she was hearing.

Gabriel had been watching her, not Jamil. So the person she saw in the woods that night, was Billy, not someone Jamil had watching her. The camera shuttering sound she heard back at the café when Megan met up with Rodrigo, wasn’t a coincidence, but rather it was Gabriel watching her.

She clenched hed jaws, feeling her anger rising. It explained why he wasn’t surprised when she introduced herself as Tyche Smith, because he already knew. And the news of her ankle, on one had spread it, it was simply Billy who had reported back to him.

The more she thought about all his actions, the more she felt sick and angry. To think she had forgiven him, thought that he had changed. To think she was about working on her damn attitude towards him, believing that she was being to harsh.

Chuckling, she placed her hand on her forehead and paced. “Wow, wow and wow. I can’t believe I was played for a fucking fool. I actually thought he was a changed man, but nope, he was playing me from the fucking beginning.”

“luce mia,” Owen called, hoping to calm her before she went overboard.

But she ignored him, once again fixing her attention on Billy. “And what’s this shit about him acting weird? Has he regained his memories?”

“I’m not sure, but Doctor Bailey thinks so.”

“Doctor Bailey knows of this?” Leonica chuckled louder. “Wow, just wow.” She was laughing. “I don’t even know why I’m surprised anymore, after all, Gabriel has always been a scumbag.”

With a sigh, the smile on her lips completely disappeared and she stared into the far distance of the darkness.

Both Owen and Billy were unsure of what to do, the Former was about to speak when Leonica beat him to it.