My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

Ernest looked at Florence with a sullen face, and his chest felt heavy.

He knew that what Florence said and did was all for his sake, to lighten his heart so that he wouldn’t feel guilty.

He had brought her to suffer all the way here, and he was already sad to see her suffer.

She had wholly abandoned the opportunity to be a mother because of him. Every time, whether it was with drugs or condoms, they were reminding each other of his drag.

Florence became more and more anxious seeing Ernest’s awful look.

What she feared most was that things would come to this point.

She grabbed his hand in panic and explained in a flustered tone.

“Ernest, I’m really fine. I don’t care. I came with you to look for the medicine as a trip. I’m still young and I don’t want a child now either.”

“Don’t overthink it, okay?”

She said the last sentence weakly and full of unease and panic.

Ernest’s heart couldn’t help but tighten.

He looked straight at her, and he felt his chest heavier and heartbroken.

“Florence.”

He called her name in a low voice.

Florence was nervous as she looked at him, “Yes?”

Ernest pursed his lips for a moment before speaking slowly.

His voice was deep and husky, “I’m not as fragile as you think. I’m your man. Just let me handle all of these.”

His large hand gripped her small hand back and squeezed it tightly in his palm.

“I’ll find the medicine as soon as possible. We’ll definitely have a child of our own in three years.”

It would only take three years.

Florence looked at Ernest in confusion, not expecting him to say such words.

But perhaps, this was all he could do to comfort her.

He pretended not to care, not to feel guilty, just to make her look forward to the promise for three years.

But it would still be brutal in his heart, right?

Florence suppressed it in her heart and nodded earnestly. Her voice was firm and choked.

“Alright!”

would have their own

They would be happy.

grip, and he continued in a meagre voice, “I’ll use a condom next

a

chance to dwell on it and just threw the contraceptive pill into the bin

and all

this, then let it be so

incident, they continued on their way, rocking

days, the caravan

they stopped, the shaking of the car didn’t

up, “Is

and was always aware of the latest

was an avalanche not long ago up ahead. It’s

An avalanche.

that an avalanche was enough to

was very high, and it was

once there was an

that they drove past before the

road ahead was covered by an avalanche. It will take a while

on to explain to Florence

front window, she saw that almost all the people in the vehicles in front had

probably going to

happened that Florence had also been sitting in the car for a long

I get out of the car and

“Sure.”

readily and draped the cold-protective clothing on Florence’s

Florence had already gotten used to the warm condition in the car and the cold

into her winter clothes and put on her hood before

as soon as she got out of

It was cold.

and leaned

body gave her warmth while also helping to shield her

The road is slippery and

led Florence, walking on the inner side

narrow mountain road they had

were still steep and bottomless

he would roll into the invisible abyss below the clouds just

deep valley below her feet,

think there’s any chance of survival

cliff and

“Leave it to fate.”

he wasn’t sure, then the chances of surviving

clung to Ernest a little tighter