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 child in

They would be happy.

in a meagre voice, “I’ll use

was a

dwell on it and

in a daze, and all the thoughts in her mind were

had already uncovered this, then let

they continued on their

days, the

car

up,

had his headset on and was

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

An avalanche.

TV that an

and it was white all around, with very

ground shook once there was an

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

was covered by an avalanche. It will take

went on to explain

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

going

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

of the car and

“Sure.”

nodded readily and draped the

used to the warm condition

quickly changed into her winter clothes and put on her

soon as she got

It was cold.

and leaned into

tall body gave her warmth while also helping to shield her from most

is slippery and wonky

walking on the

wider than the narrow mountain road they had

steep and

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

the deep valley below her

think there’s any chance of survival if someone falls

at the cliff and

“Leave it to fate.”

wasn’t sure, then the chances of surviving were

Ernest a little tighter