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

They would be happy.

and he continued in a meagre voice, “I’ll

a

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

daze, and all the thoughts in her

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

on their way, rocking in the

days,

the car didn’t stop. It swayed slightly,

tensed up,

on and was always aware of

There was an avalanche not long ago up ahead. It’s

An avalanche.

on TV that an

it was white all around, with very thick piles

there was an

lucky that it happened before, not that they drove past before the avalanche.

road ahead was covered by an avalanche. It will

to explain to Florence

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

going to

Florence had also been sitting in the car for a long time, and her body was a little

the car and

“Sure.”

readily and draped the

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

put on her hood

came whipping around as soon

It was cold.

and leaned into Ernest’s

while also helping to shield her from most of the

slowly. The road is slippery

walking on the

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

and bottomless

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

deep valley below her

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

looked at the cliff

“Leave it to fate.”

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

clung to Ernest a little