A Matter of Wife and Love

Chapter 38

Amelie hastily picked her up and looked toward the woman.

Meanwhile, the woman was looking at them as well. “Who are you? Why are you here?”

Her expression softened a little.

She roughly pushed her messy hair over her head, revealing her entire face.

“Mrs. Gordon?” Amelie recognized the woman as she called out.

When Abby Gordon heard the beautiful girl calling her that, she couldn’t help but examine the latter.

“It’s me, Amy,” Amelie introduced herself.

It was only then that Abby recognized her. With a stomp of her foot, she clapped both her hands on her thighs ‘Amy! It’s been years since I last saw you. You’ve grown even prettier now. I almost couldn’t recognize you, and I thought you were a celebrity from somewhere.”

Amelie smiled shyly.

Abby continued, “Sorry for just now. I thought my stupid son came back, so that’s why I threw the washbasin. You weren’t hurt, were you?”

“No.” Amelie wasn’t concerned about that. She looked up and gazed at the yard behind Abby. “Where’s my dad? Is he no longer living here? Or-”

A sudden extreme fear invaded her heart, and even her voice trembled.

“Your dad is fine.” Noticing Amelie’s pale face, Abby guessed that Amelie was overthinking things, so she hastily said, “He complained about how this house was too big for one person, so he moved into the smaller house at the end of the street. Our family is huge, so I discussed it with him, and he agreed to rent the place

to us.”

Abby grinned, a guilty look flashing across her face.

Even though they called it renting, she never paid him a single cent all this while.

Steven never urged her, so she pretended it never happened.

On the other hand, Amelie wasn’t in the mood to think about these things as she said, “Can you take me to my

dad?”

“Of course.” Abby thought that since she was living in their house, she should at least help them with this little request

As she strode with her thick legs, Abby took Amelie to the end of the street.

Soon, they found a small shop facing the street.

It was rundown and shabby, and it didn’t even have a sign.

“Your dad is in there” Abby pointed at the shop as she spoke.

Amelie looked at the shop

It wasn’t just worn-out, it was pitifully tiny.

shop, and most of them were the toys she used to play with during

childhood

bicycle, a skateboard, and

at the items bearing so much history, Amelie couldn’t stop her tears as

face.

for Steven to come out when Amelie stopped her. “I’ll go

she took step after

old alley and finally reached the

more spacious than the shopfront, and it was filled with shoe

were various

colorful shoes in their novel styles, she couldn’t help

didn’t see her father anywhere, so she could only proceed further to look

yard lay at the back of the

back to her as he sat at an antique shoe machine. His back was bent over as his limbs moved to

movements were slow, whereas his hair was a mixture of gray and

at

front of her was none other than her father,

she doubted

hair wasn’t this white. When she got married, his hair was still dark with an occasional silver strand here

was a bonafide middle-aged man with broad

stature

movements weren’t

Unable to contain the sorrow in her

working man

he slowly

he revealed his wizened and wrinkled

from all the years

covered his face, adding to him a hint of a bookish

glasses as he finally recognized

steps toward Steven, sobbing. In her raging emotions, she wanted to hug

simply stood there as tears fell from her

went to her and took her hands. “It’s

so happily

the tears on

thin?”

on her face, which was a stark contrast to her appearance now. Now, her chin was extremely sharp, and her body was terrifyingly

for ignoring him after she married into the Alston Family. Instead, he worried greatly

she had been too cruel, and she wanted more than anything to give herself a heavy

glad you’re back.” Steven

much as he led Amelie outside. “I’ll whip something up for you. What would you

loved Amelie to bits, and he would always pamper her ever since she was

of the night, or if he had to go through a lot of trouble, he would still do everything he could to provide her with all the food she

to the moon and back, but she

should’ve been repaying her father’s grace and love for her with her whole heart, but

down Amelie’s cheeks once again as she hugged

on the back, comforting her like he used to do

long while later, the two finally

the room,

child…” Steven gazed at the adorable little girl in between the shoe racks, his eyes lighting up in an