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 a condom

a little

chance to dwell on it and

and all the thoughts in

already uncovered this, then let it be so to use

this incident, they continued on their way,

more days, the

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

up, “Is it

headset on and was always aware of the latest

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

An avalanche.

an avalanche was enough to bury

it was white all

ground shook once there was an

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

an avalanche. It will take a while to reopen

on to explain to Florence

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

probably going to open the

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

of the car and

“Sure.”

the cold-protective clothing on

already gotten used to the warm condition in the car and the cold winter

changed into her winter clothes and put on

whipping around as soon as she got out of the

It was cold.

and

helping to shield her

The road is slippery

led Florence, walking on the inner side of the

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

and

he would roll into the invisible abyss below the clouds

valley below her feet, Florence asked in a

think there’s any chance of survival if

at the cliff and

“Leave it to fate.”

said he wasn’t sure, then the

a little tighter for fear of