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!”

own

They would be happy.

and he continued in a meagre voice, “I’ll

was a

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

looked at it in a daze, and all the thoughts in

this, then let it be so

incident, they continued on their way,

days,

car didn’t stop. It swayed slightly, just

tensed up, “Is it an

his headset on and was

in a deep voice, “It’s fine. There was an avalanche not long ago up ahead. It’s just

An avalanche.

that an avalanche

it was white all around, with very

once there was an

past before the avalanche.

road ahead was covered by an avalanche. It will

on to explain

through the front window, she saw that almost all the people in the

probably going to open

been sitting in the car for a long time,

I get out of the car

“Sure.”

draped the cold-protective clothing on Florence’s

days, Florence had already gotten used to the

and put on

as soon as she got out

It was cold.

collar and leaned into Ernest’s arms

her warmth while also helping to shield her from most

is slippery

the inner

wider than the narrow mountain road they had crossed previously. At

there were still steep and bottomless cliffs beside

one were to fall from here, he would roll into the invisible abyss below the clouds just like a ball on a slippery

at the deep valley below her

think there’s any chance

at the cliff and pursed his

“Leave it to fate.”

said he wasn’t sure, then the chances

clung to Ernest a little tighter for fear of falling