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.

most of them were the toys she used

childhood

little bicycle, a skateboard,

so much history, Amelie couldn’t stop her tears as they streamed

face.

about to holler for Steven to come out when Amelie

hand, she took step after

old alley

the shopfront,

patterns were various and

saw the colorful shoes in their novel styles, she couldn’t help but pause in her tracks and reached out to touch

father anywhere, so she could only proceed further to look

at the back of the

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

were slow, whereas his hair

stared at

a glance that this man in front of her

doubted herself a

memories, her father’s hair wasn’t this white. When she got married, his hair was still dark with an

either. He was a bonafide middle-aged man with

stature

movements weren’t this slow

contain the sorrow in her heart, she called in a

man paused

slowly turned

he did that, he revealed his

from

adding to him a hint of a bookish

slowly took off his glasses as he

took a few steps toward Steven, sobbing. In her raging

there as tears fell from

her and took her hands. “It’s

so happily this

from head to toe, wiping away the tears on her face.

thin?”

was a stark contrast to her appearance

married into the Alston Family. Instead, he worried greatly for her health, and this only made Amelie even more

and she wanted more than

back.” Steven

“I’ll whip something up for you. What would you

he would always pamper her ever since

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

had a father who loved her to the moon and back, but she chose to

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

Amelie’s cheeks once again

her like he used to

the two finally went

at the room, they caught sight

the adorable little girl in between