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 in just

They would be happy.

grip, and he continued in a meagre voice, “I’ll use a condom next

a

Ernest didn’t give her a chance to dwell on it and just

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

this, then let it be so to

this incident, they continued on their way, rocking in

more days, the caravan

they stopped, the shaking of the car didn’t

tensed up, “Is

on and was always

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

An avalanche.

on TV that an avalanche was enough to bury

and it was white

ground shook once there was an avalanche.

was lucky that it happened before, not that they drove past before the

an avalanche. It will

went on to explain

all the people in the vehicles in front had gotten

going to open

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

out of the car and have a

“Sure.”

nodded readily and draped the

gotten used to the warm condition in the car and

clothes and put on her hood before getting out of

wind came whipping around as soon as she

It was cold.

up her collar and leaned into

her warmth while also helping to shield her from

is slippery and

walking on the inner side of the

wider than the narrow mountain road they had

still steep and bottomless cliffs

invisible abyss below the clouds just like a ball on

deep valley below her feet, Florence asked in a low

think there’s any chance of

cliff and

“Leave it to fate.”

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

Ernest a little tighter for fear of