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 child in just

They would be happy.

continued in a meagre voice, “I’ll use a condom

a

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

and all

already uncovered this, then let it be so

this incident, they continued on their way, rocking

two more days, the

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

tensed up, “Is it

had his headset on and was always

“It’s fine. There was an avalanche not

An avalanche.

had watched it on TV that an

very high, and it was white all around, with

ground shook once there was

not that they drove past before the avalanche.

an avalanche. It will take a while to reopen the

went on to explain

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

going

had also been sitting in the car

of the car and have a

“Sure.”

nodded readily and draped the

past ten days, Florence had already gotten used to the warm condition

changed into her winter clothes and put

soon as she got

It was cold.

pulled up her collar and leaned into Ernest’s

helping to shield her from most

road is slippery

walking on the inner

here was wider than the narrow mountain road they had crossed previously. At least two or three people could stand on

steep and bottomless cliffs beside

invisible abyss below the clouds

her feet, Florence asked in

do you think there’s any chance of survival if someone falls

looked at the cliff and pursed his

“Leave it to fate.”

said he wasn’t sure, then the

to Ernest a little tighter for