After Divorce, Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant-Chapter 45 She Lied To Their Son.

Ashely’s new week in school began with him listening to Daisy tell him all about how much his mother had spent time with her, rather than him.

The entire week, his mother had barely spent time with his, giving some excuse after the other while leaving him in his grandparents place, So hearing from another child that she had spent time and love intended for him, on her, bittered him, even though that wasn’t the girl’s intention.

“Alright children, kindly quiet down.” The silver like sound of their homeroom teacher voice, Mrs. Harper, cut through his train of thought.

Looking up, Ashely faced the woman who was trying to calm the children.

When she finally did, she continued. “Today, we will be having our morning routines as usual, however with one exception.” Pointing her hand towards the door, everyone watched as a tall well built figure walked into their classroom.

Watching the figure walk in, Ashely’s eyes grew wide in astonishment, recognition and pleasure. His expression was acknowledge as the male threw him a warm smile as soon as he spotted the younger boy.

“Kids, today, a very important person would be joining us.” Mrs. Harper began once more as soon as The male had taken up a spot beside her. “This is Mr. Gabriel Bryce, a very important and Norlight’s biggest shareholders and today, he’s here for a brief inspection.”

One of the kindergartener raised his hand. “Yes, Gordon?”

“What exactly is he going to be in...e...in-“

“Inspecting.” Mrs. Harper pronounced with a kind smile, commending the boy for trying to correctly pronounce the word even though he had failed. Turning to Gabriel, she expressed a broader smile. “Well, Mr. Bryce, would you like to explain?”

“Of course,” Gabriel nodded at her before facing the children. His eyes found Ashely’s once more before he began. “Hello Kids,”

“Hello Mr. Bryce!” Their voices called back with some of them failing to pronounce his name correctly.

“As Mrs. Harper has explained, today I’m here to inspect, starting with your class. It’s going to be nothing out of the ordinary, I’m just going to seat in for a few hours and...watch you all. Just a little exercise to determine how well you all are coming along. Feel free to not pay any mind to me. Consider me a fellow student if that puts your mind at ease.” He added the last part with a chuckle, earning several toothy laughs from the students.

Some of them even went as far as pointing out that he was too old to be a kindergartener. At some point Mrs. Harper tried to calm them all down, all but one person who had arranged his uniform properly and sat diligently in his seat, not wanting to be associated with the other children’s rowdy behavior and thus, considered Ill behaved.

His attempt didn’t go unnoticed. Throughout the masses of noisy children, Gabriel took note of how well composed he seemed, not only when seating down, but even when classes began.

Watching him jolt down scribbles on his book, paying attention, as much as possible, to the words of Mrs. Harper, Gabriel couldn’t control the small smile that made its way to the corners of his lips.

It was a smile filled with pride. He was proud, not only at Ashely’s knack for catching onto things faster than the other children, but also at his well behaved attitude.

It was the type of pride that only a father could feel as he stared at his child. The child that brought nothing but happiness with their actions.

As the minutes stretched out, Gabriel still intently watching the boy, he couldn’t help but acknowledge how intelligent and well mannered.

No matter how much he didn’t want to admit it, Leonica had Raised Ashely in the right way. It was clear that she had taken her time and placed him in the right path, mannerism, behavior and all, unlike her own.

‘Perhaps,’ Gabriel began to think, his smile tightening as he stared at Ashely.‘Perhaps if Leonica were to apologize for all the pain she has caused Angelina, I can consider building a complete family with her...for Ashely sake.’

Nodding his head subtly at the idea, his thoughts were interrupted as Mrs. Harper once again made her way to the front of the class room and clapped her hands, gaining the kindergartener’s attention.

“Alright kids, times up, pens down.” She announced once that was turned, She turned around and scribbled big bold letters on their chalk board.

‘A Speech About My Daddy’ Gabriel read the white words written on the board and as if on instinct, his eyes found Ashely who was seated obediently.

“Alright,” Clapping her hands together once more, almost like a bad habit, Ms. Harper addresses the class. “Now last week we had all decided on this topic and~” she dragged the final letters of her last words. “We even drew lots. Can someone remind me who goes first again?”

In sync, without missing a heartbeat, everyone’s fingers pointed at Ashely, Daisy’s included, who later whispered a remorseful apologize.

“That’s right! Ashely you’re first. Now I’m sure you have your drawing completed, so why don’t you come up here and tell us all about your father.”

Ashely gulped, visibly. His eyes roamed the entire classroom, and then settled on Gabriel. The elderly male offered him a genuine smile, brimming on the inside to hear what the child has to say about his father, him.

With a smile given from his kind uncle, Ashely felt a tad bit less nervous. He hopped off his chair and approached the front of his class.

“Alright Ashely, we’re all ready whenever you are.” Mrs. Harper said, her voice holding the tiniest bit of encouragement as she was well aware of what it meant to stand in front of a group of people your own, preparing to give a speech.

Intimidating and nauseous was the least word to describe it.

“H-hello everyone,” Ashely began with a wave just like he had practiced in front of his grandparents all week, minus the stutter. “Today I’m going to be talking about my daddy.” Holding up the drawing he had just recently finished in class, Gabriel angled his body in the direction, wanting to get a better view of not into the boy, but the picture he had also drawn.

He had expected to see some sort of business man or at least a picture of a man carrying a boy in his neck in some cheaply drawn flower field, the basic, however, what he saw was far from what he had expected, causing his smile to drop.

The man Ashely had drawn as his ‘father’ was one in a white space suit, floating cordless-ly around in the space he colored black.

Holding the picture up high, unaware of the effect it had on one individual, Ashely continued on with his week long planned speech. “This is my daddy. My daddy is a spaceman who lives up in space. Although he doesn’t spend much time with my mommy and I, he watches and protects us from above. And for that, I love him.” He concluded his rather shut speech with that.

“I-is that all?” Mrs. Harper questioned.

Cocking his head to the side, silently asking if there was meant to be more, Ashely responded. “Yes?”

“A-alright. You did good. Everyone clap for Ashely.”

The classroom erupted with sounds of applause and Ashely smiled at his performance and the congrats that followed after.

Walking back to his seat, he briefly stole a glance in Gabriel’s direction, expecting to see the male clapping and smiling warmly at him, but much to his surprise, Gabriel wasn’t even looking at him, talk less clapping.

Ashely’s face fell as he slid back into his seat, visibly saddened by Gabriel’s expression with one thought on his mind.

‘Is he mad about something I said?’

Damn right Gabriel was mad, but not about anything the little one had said, but rather because while listening to Ashely’s speech, a brutal discovery had hit him.

Leonica had fucking lied to his son about his existence!

A spaceman, the fuck? When the hell did he become a fucking spaceman?!

It was obvious that Leonica had hidden his existence from Ashely, masking it with some sick fairytale, about he being a spaceman.

And just the thought of that alone, brought back the anger he had been feeling towards her in new waves.

Fucking forgiving her for Ashely’s sake, because for Ashely’s sake, he, without a doubt was going to fucking make her pay for this.

It was only fair to punish a woman like her, who had hid his existence from his own child.

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The rest of the school day had flown by with Gabriel visibly upset by Ashely’s speech, but it didn’t mean he missed the way Ashely had continued to remain well mannered.

Surprisingly, despite how tacky Ashely’s speech had sounded, it had scores the highest rating, along with a few more of the subject that they had taken, which made him come out with the best score for the day.

“Okay, as promised, today’s star, which is Ashely, gets the chance to receive a gift from our top shareholder.”

The children, most, If not all, stopped what they were doing and glanced at her.

What promise? What gift?

The questions were clearly written on their face, making Harper gingerly mutter the word “Oh shit” as she recalled not tell either of them about the reward of coming out onto for today.

“Teacher-“ one of the student with ginger brown hair began but Harper swiftly hushed her and any other child than may have wanted to ask the same question.

“School’s over, go wait for your parents, or better yet, hang out with your friends, get a life while you’re still young and lively.” Turning to Ashely, she snapped her fingers. “Ashely’s, come here.”

The young and confused male, despite hearing his teacher’s words, glanced between her and his desk mate, Daisy, with puzzlement, before slowly moving to answer her.

“Congratulations on coming out top of the class,” Mrs. Harper patted his head before stepping aside so he could see Gabriel who was waiting for him, hands tucked in the pocket of his grey coat. “Go claim your reward.”

Ashely hesitated, recalling the look of Gabriel’s face after his speech, but seeing the warm smile on his face now, his hesitation faded away and he advanced.

“Hello Kind mister.” He greeted with a smile.

He gesture was returned as Gabriel ruffled his hair with enough force to bend his head down. “When would you quit calling me that, kid?”

“Kid?” Ashely huffed, snapping his head away too quickly to notice Gabriel stealing several strands of his hair. “I’m four...and a half.” He defended.

“You’re still a kid,” Gabriel stated, turning around to beckon Bill over.

Once again, Ashely was fuming too much, or at least pretending to be fuming, that he missed the whispers exchanged between Bill and his employer, along with the strands of hair passed along.

“Or would you prefer I addressed you by your name?” Dismissing his assistant, Gabriel turned back and address the child who wasn’t even as tall as his waist.

Hands folded across his chest, stance somewhat reminding Gabriel of Leonica at the same time himself, Ashely voiced. “Of course.”

This earned a chuckle from Gabriel, one that he had tried desperately to fight away. “Fine, I’ll address you by your name once you address me by mine.” He tabled.

Ashely, finding no qualms in the task, wasted no time in grinning up at the taller man. “Fine...uncle Gabriel!”

“Just Gabriel is fine.” The man himself insisted once again patting the child’s head, this time genuinely with no intention of collecting hair.

“Okay, G-gabriel.” Ashely conceded.

“Good boy,” Gabriel praised. “Keep this up and maybe someday, your daddy would come back to spend some quality time with you.”

“Really?!”

Ashely’s head had jerked up faster than Gabriel could comprehend at the question. His eyes which were the same dark grey as his, shone with artificial stars.

“Would my daddy really come back?”

“Of course.” Gabriel replied with a thinned smile.

Hearing those words, the words he had longed for, for as long as possible, Ashely couldn’t contain the excitement he felt and without meaning to, he began bouncing like a human ball.

But his excitement didn’t last long enough for him to enjoy it as a sudden thought, no rather, as he recalled his mother’s words.

Stopping his bouncing, he faced Gabriel with a narrow stare. “My daddy...he isn’t going to bring me a new mommy, right?”

His words caught Gabriel off guard, completely. All he could do was blink his eyes in utter confusion, before wordlessly asking. “What?”

“I don’t want a new mommy.” Ashely explained, no, rather he protested, just like he had done when Leonica told him all about the transition of having a new mother of Gabriel became his new daddy. ƒгeewebnovёl.com

If that was what was going to happen, then believe it of not, this kid would much rather stay without his father.

And it was more than written on his face with his pouty expression, rendering Gabriel speechless.

Scratch what he had thought earlier. What in God’s name was Leonica teaching his son!

A few solid seconds had gone by, Ashely staring pointedly him and Gabriel being speechless, before he had finally gathered his thought and a befitting answer.

Parting his lips to respond, he was instantly silenced as a familiar yet angered voice sounded out from behind him.

“What in God’s fucking name do you think you’re doing?”