A Matter of Wife and Love

All of a sudden, Bria swung her arm in Amelie’s direction and hit Amelie on her hand. Amelie was taken by surprise, and her phone slipped out of her fingers. “What happened, Bria?” Amelie turned to check on Bria first.

Bria simply shrugged before scratching the back of her head. The young girl looked like she didn’t know how she had bumped into her mother either. “Let me carry her,” Amelie said as she glanced at Leo. Leo handed the child over without saying much. Then, he bent down to pick Amelie’s phone up for her. “Here you go,” he said.

Amelie nodded in appreciation before she took the phone from him and chucked it into her handbag. Soon enough, the bus arrived at their destination. The teacher directed all the children into the nursing home, and the dean of the nursing home delegated some cleaning duties to all of the parents and their children.

Even though Bria’s leg was injured, she insisted on being a part of the activity. Amelie hesitated for a while before she went to the toolshed and approached one of the staff members there. “Can you give us some cleaning tools?” she asked.

“Sure.” The staff member handed Amelie some tools, and her eyes lit up with admiration when she saw Bria. “You’re still helping out even though you’re injured, huh? That’s so nice of you,” the staff commented. Bria simply responded with a shy smile.

“How many sets of tools will you need?” the staff member asked.

Amelie hesitated for a while. “You can give me two sets,” she finally said.

just there to spend time with Bria and that he wasn’t going to take part in any cleaning activities. Leo, on the other

a flat and cooling piece of land outdoors,

still earnest as she swept up all the leaves in her area. She giggled to herself as she worked on her task. Meanwhile, Amelie stole a few glances at Leo while they worked. She was genuinely curious—she had never seen Leo clean up after himself in her whole life, and she was nearly convinced that Leo didn’t even know how to hold

his task. He even seemed to work the broom with ease. He had taken his suit off and rolled his sleeves up. His posture was upright, and his arms looked strong as he swept the leaves—he looked like

were fooling around, and their parents had to shout at them every now and then. The twins’

few rocks flying into the air. Amelie saw the rocks flying in Bria’s

any pain from the rocks hitting her back. All she felt was a looming figure above her. Amelie turned a little to notice the man’s long legs

Amelie parted her lips to question him when the twin boys’ parents rushed over. “Are you guys okay?” The parents wore apologetic and remorseful looks on their faces,

dirt on her shirt before she glanced in Leo’s direction. He had already walked off with his head hung low as if he were contemplating something. He showed no intention of responding to the twins’ parents. “We’re okay.” Amelie had no choice but to answer on Leo’s behalf. Despite so, the parents insisted on dragging their

give a few performances to the old folks after they were done cleaning the place up. The elderlies chuckled with excitement as they shuffled over to watch the performances. Bria handed the flowers that she had prepared to the elderlies while Amelie followed along to wheel Bria around. Amelie wore a faint smile on her face as she moved through the

to glance in Leo’s direction, and she would realize that Leo was staring at them as well. For some reason, she could sense that

The pathway up the hills was rather rocky, and Bria’s wheelchair couldn’t be brought up. Bria urged Leo and Amelie to go ahead without her. “Take your time! You don’t have to rush back to me.” Bria had already made friends with a few of the elderlies in the nursing home, and the elderlies were all circling around

had blended in with all the old people around her. Leo glanced at Bria as well. He realized how different Bria seemed in comparison to the way she acted back when she was in the Alston

Leo dug a hole for the plant. Leo was efficient with his movements, but he stayed in his spot after he was done with his digging. Amelie didn’t know how long he was going to stay there, so she simply walked over to