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!”

their own child

They would be happy.

tightened his grip, and he continued in a meagre voice,

was a little

to dwell on it and just threw

it in a daze, and all the thoughts in her

had already uncovered this, then

continued on

more days, the

when they stopped, the shaking of the car didn’t stop. It swayed slightly, just like

instantly tensed up,

was always aware of the

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

An avalanche.

an avalanche was

altitude here was very high, and it was white all around, with very thick piles

once there was an

that they drove past before the avalanche.

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

went on to

the vehicles in front had gotten out of their

probably going to open

been sitting in the car for a long time, and her body was

of the car and

“Sure.”

nodded readily and draped the

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

her winter clothes and put on

wind came whipping around as soon

It was cold.

collar and leaned into Ernest’s arms

while also helping to shield her from most of the

road is slippery and wonky

led Florence, walking on the inner side

road here was wider than the narrow mountain road they had crossed

were still steep and bottomless cliffs

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

at the deep valley below her feet, Florence asked in

any chance of survival if someone falls

the cliff and

“Leave it to fate.”

then the chances of surviving

little tighter for fear