After Divorce, Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant-Chapter 144 New Ownership.

Setting with anger, Leonica was near about to smack the smile off Melvin’s face when she heard her name being called from being her.

Her entire demeanor seemed to change the moment she turned around and spotted Owen carrying nylons of what she assumed was food.

Melvin of course, didn’t fail to notice the shift in her character. His eyes gravitated from his little sister towards the blonde boy who was staring speechlessly at him.

Did she have a soft spot for this blondie? He thought, resisting the urge to tilt his head as he studied Owen from head to toe.

“Owen, what are you doing here?” Partially forgetting her brother’s presence, Leonica sauntered towards Owen, offering him a smile as she gently held his forearm.

“I thought it would be nice to surprise you ahead of time,” Came Owen’s response, but Leonica could tell he wasn’t one hundred percent focused on her. When she followed his line of sight- once again recalling that she had been dealing with Melvin- she groaned.

“Hyung, nice to see you again.” Owen tasted the water even though he knew Melvin wouldn’t recognize him. Heck, even Leonica who had spent hours with him back in the days barely remembered him, so there was absolutely no guarantee that Melvin would.

As expected, Melvin tilted his head, finally sub coming to the urge. “And you are?”

Preparing to answer, Owen felt Leonica give his arm a light squeeze and when he briefly glanced down at her, he could tell by her eyes that she didn’t want him getting involved with Melvin.

Well, he wasn’t going to question. If that’s what she wanted, then so be it.

“A friend of Leonica’s.” His alternate answer was followed by a smile.

Melvin however, wasn’t buying that answer. “That so?” He mused, once again gauging his sister’s reaction around the male before smiling. “How interesting.”

“If you’re done talking, you can leave.” Leonica fixed him with a cold gaze, drawing his attention back to her with every word she spoke.

“Oh I will, but don’t forget Father’s message.” With that, he began his departure, only slowing down when he was near Owen. “It was nice meeting you, Owen. I look forward to our future encounters.”

Future encounters, yeah, he wishes, Leonica thought as she watched him exit the building.

“Did I come at a wrong time?” Owen’s voice snapped her back.

Turning around, she faintly smiled upon seeing his slightly guilty looking expression.

Shaking her head, she took a portion of the Nylon. “No, not at all.”

Owen nodded and spared a glance behind him almost as if trying to see if Melvin had truly left. “Hyung’s changed.” He stated.

“Has he?” Leonica mused and for the first time since, well since a day before yesterday, she found herself trying to remember how Melvin has looked during their childhood.

After sometime, she gave up and Shrugged. “Doesn’t really matter.”

~•~

When Melvin arrived outside, he was once again picked up by the same black car that picked him two days ago. Except this time around, he was alone.

Immediately after entering, he phoned his benefactor to inform him of the development. To say Rodrigo was pleased would be an understatement, but all the excitement and fuss seemed to die down when Melvin informed him that it’s the Vice President position he’d be taking, rather than the president’s position.

“This isn’t what we agreed on.” His voices his dissatisfaction.

Melvin nodded, indifferent towards his uncle’s discontent. “I know it wasn’t, but Leonica seemed suspicious of me. She was more than certain that you had put me up to this.”

“What?” Rodrigo fauxed surprise. “I did no such thing. This is simply you taking back what belongs to you, all the while fixing the wrong your sister had done.”

By wrong, he meant when Leonica had fired him for having someone tail her and spread that Video at Ashley’s birthday, resulting in the nasty rumor that nearly dethroned her. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

Or so he thought of it that way, but in reality, Leonica was barely bothered by it, one could say it was thanks to the reliable men she had around her, other would say it was because of her independent strength.

From Melvin’s perspective, with all the data he had gathered, he’d say it was both.

His little guileful sister had played the clever card. She dealt with such a situation without even needing to stress.

“I understand your dissatisfaction Uncle,” He truly didn’t. “But we don’t want to overdo things, now do we? I promise to elevate your status further once we have the company in our hands.”

Hearing this was more than enough to pacify Rodrigo’s anger. For the moment at least.

“But tell me something, Uncle. Is there someone you forgot to add to the list of people in Leonica’s life?” He asked as his eyes lingered on the photo of Owen he had fetched after having silently hacked into the company’s CCTV feeds.

Humming in thought for a few seconds, Rodrigo responded. “Not that I’m aware of. Why do you ask?”

“No reason at all, I just ran into someone rather interesting.”

“... are they going to prove to be a threat?”

Melvin chuckled. “No one’s a threat here, Uncle.”

“Of course, of course!” Melvin could practically hear the grin in his voice. “Good job, once again.”

“Thank you Uncle. I have a few things to do, I’ll call you during spare time.” Ending the call, he placed his phone down and focused on Owen’s picture, actually now finding the male’s face familiar the more he stared.

And then thinking back to the way he had addressed him, it clicked.

He threw his head back and laughed. “Oh, Leonica, you’ve always been a cruel one, charming yet another wrecking ball.” Seconds later, the smile faded. “Well, what is to be expected from the Ace of our family.”

Swiping twice on the tablet, he looked at another profile- a smaller profile- before instructing. “Change of plans, let’s head towards Norlight International School.”

~•~

Once again, shoving a spoonful of custard pudding in her mouth, Leonica found her foul mood quickly disappearing.

Seated beside her with his temple proper against his knuckle while his elbow rested on the couch top, Owen watched, his lover, a slight smile on his lips.

Only after a while did she notice his stare. But unlike in the past, she didn’t shy away and instead offered him a spoonful of her desert.

“Want some?”

“Of course,” He leaned in when she placed the spoon close to his face, but the next second, tactically diving to the side.

Leonica yelped, visibly caught off guard when she felt his tongue touch the flesh of her cheek and lap up what she assumed was crumbs of her pudding.

“Delicious.” Owen offered her an innocent smile which expanded into a grin when he saw how red her face flushed.

Cute.

“You find this funny?” Leonica questioned, getting ready to pounce on him at any moment.

And she did. Dropping the pudding cup, she straddled his lap and held her index finger, which had pudding on it, close to his nose. “Do you still find it funny?”

Unfortunately for Leonica, her threat did little to nothing when it came to scaring Owen. She only realized this when his grin seem to grow rather than seize and just when she tried to flee, his hand caught her waist and jerked her forward, causing her to lean in.

Thankful, she stopped herself before she could completely trash into Owen. But the proximity, damn the proximity was little!

“luce mia, luce mia, your tempting me, aren’t you?” He muttered dangerously close to her lip.

Leonica felt that same tizzy feeling return to her heart and this time around, it had her heart beating wildly, making her cheeks flush red like a damn high school girl who was about to get a long awaited kiss from her crush.

As embarrassing as it sounded, Leonica found herself enjoying it and silently groaned when the door to her office suddenly flew open and Leonardo stepped in.

“Jesus Christ Leonica, what happened to keeping personal affairs separate?” He asked, turning the other way as if he wished to forget what he had just seen.

“And what happened to knocking.” Came Leonica’s challenging response as she slid off Owen’s lap, the latter not missing the chance to peck her cheek.

“Yeah, yeah, that’s my fault... can I turn around?” He asked and without even waiting for an answer, did so.

Owen who was now gathering what he had Leonica had used to eat, wavered gingerly at him. “Hi Hyung.”

“No,” Leonardo objected at his innocent behavior. “Not after you just tried turning my sister into a baby maker in her own office.”

“Jesus Leonardo, it was nothing like that.” Leonica protested only to earn a pointed stare from the male. “What do you want?” She quickly changed the topic.

Almost as if on cue, Leonardo remembered the reason for his abrupt visit. He raised the envelope, which Leonica only just now realized he had. “Legal just received this.”

“What is it?” Taking it from his grasp, she peeled the top open and fetched out the thin white paper inside.

It took her a few seconds to read through it, then she sighed.

“What bullshit is that talking about? You’re stepping down?” Leonardo questioned, having already ready the content of the envelope on his way up.

“No.” Leonica glanced back down at the document which clearly had her father’s signature, declaring that she vacate the office of Melvin this time two days from now, else she’d be forcefully removed. “At least I don’t plan on leaving without a fight.”

“luce mia,” Owen called her from the couch, reminding her of what they had discussed over the phone yesterday.

“I know.” Leonica responded with a sigh, as she rounded her table and sank Into her office chair. “But solving this without brute force isn’t exactly an easy option.”

As she spoke, Owen stood up and approached Leonardo. Briefly, he leaned in and explained vaguely, what Leonica had told him.

In an instant, Leonardo’s demeanor changes and he carefully approached. “Leo, this company isn’t your life, you do know that, yeah?”

“I Do, but I can’t exactly abandon it into the hands of the wrong people, now can I.”

“Obviously. But don’t wound yourself trying to prevent that.” Gently tapping his temple, he said. “There’s more than just my superior in there. I’m sure you’d figure it out.” With that, he turned and headed for the door, cueing his exit. “No baby making in this office!”

Owen chuckled while Leonica muttered a string of profanity at her brother. Standing up, Owen trashed the empty plates and moved to where she was sitting.

He leaned over the table well enough to delivery a parting kiss to her lips. When he pulled back, Leonica looked like she still wanted to it to last longer, so he decided to tease her a tiny bit.

“You heard your brother, luce mia, no baby making in here, yet.”

Once again, her cheeks flared a tinge of pink and by the time she had gotten a comeback befitting of what he had just said, the blonde was out her office, happily chuckling at the effect he had on her.

Once again alone and with none to distract her, Leonica found her mind replaying the situation at hand whilst she started blankly at the paper clutched between her fingers.

hours, what miracle could she work in such short notice to save this company.

Save the company? Leonica found herself blinking rapidly at the thought. The company didn’t need saving, what it simply needed was...

Out of nowhere a brilliant idea came to Leonica’s mind.

“New Ownership.”