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!”

have their own

They would be happy.

grip, and he continued in a meagre

a

dwell on it and just threw

a daze, and all the thoughts in

he had already uncovered this, then let it be so to

on their

more days, the caravan

when they stopped, the shaking of the car didn’t stop. It

tensed up,

his headset on and was always

fine. There was an avalanche not

An avalanche.

on TV that an avalanche was enough to

high, and it was

once there

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

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

to

almost all the people in the vehicles in front had gotten out of their cars and

were probably going to open

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

the car and have

“Sure.”

nodded readily and draped the cold-protective clothing

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

quickly changed into her winter clothes and put on her

soon as she got out

It was cold.

her collar and leaned into

also helping to

is slippery

the

wider than the narrow mountain road they had crossed previously. At least two

steep and bottomless cliffs beside

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

valley below her

do you think there’s any chance of

cliff and pursed his

“Leave it to fate.”

then the chances of surviving were

little tighter