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 child in just

They would be happy.

he continued in a meagre voice, “I’ll

a

give her a chance to dwell on it and just threw

at it in a daze, and

uncovered this, then let it be so to use

incident, they continued on their way, rocking in the

more days, the caravan

the shaking of the car didn’t

tensed up, “Is it an

his headset on and was always aware of the latest

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

An avalanche.

it on TV that an avalanche was enough to

high, and it was white

shook once there was

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

covered by an avalanche. It will take a while to

to explain

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

probably going to open the

been sitting in the car for a long

get out of the car and have

“Sure.”

the cold-protective

the warm condition in the car and the cold

winter clothes and put on her hood before getting out

soon as she got out of

It was cold.

up her collar and leaned

helping to shield her from most of the

is

walking on the

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

there were still steep and

into the invisible

the deep valley below her feet, Florence asked in

do you think there’s any chance of survival if

the cliff and pursed

“Leave it to fate.”

then the chances of surviving were

Ernest a little tighter for fear of