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

a

dwell on it and just threw the contraceptive

it in a daze, and

had already uncovered this, then let it be so

this incident, they continued on their way,

days,

shaking of the car didn’t stop. It

tensed up, “Is it

and was always

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

An avalanche.

that an avalanche was enough to bury people

it was white all around, with

once there was an avalanche.

happened before, not that they drove past before the avalanche. Otherwise, all of them

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

on to explain

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

going to

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

I get out of the car and have

“Sure.”

nodded readily and draped the cold-protective

the past ten days, Florence had already gotten used to the warm condition in the car and the cold winter

put on her hood before

whipping around as soon as she got out

It was cold.

up her collar and leaned into

gave her warmth while also helping to

is

on the inner side of the

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

were still steep and bottomless cliffs

from here, he would roll into the invisible abyss below the

the deep valley below her feet,

there’s any chance of survival if someone

at the cliff and pursed

“Leave it to fate.”

he said he wasn’t sure, then the chances of surviving

clung to Ernest a little