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 use

a little

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

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

he had already uncovered this, then let it be so

they continued on their

more days, the

car didn’t

up,

was always

said in a deep voice, “It’s fine. There was an avalanche not

An avalanche.

watched it on TV that an avalanche was enough

high, and it was white all around,

ground shook once there

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

It will take a while to reopen

to explain to

through the front window, she saw that almost all the people in the vehicles in front had gotten out of their cars and were walking forward with various

were probably going

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

the car and

“Sure.”

and draped the cold-protective clothing on Florence’s

already gotten used to the warm condition

put on her

as soon as she got out of

It was cold.

pulled up her collar and leaned

body gave her warmth while also helping to shield her from most

The road is slippery

led Florence, walking on the inner side of the

mountain road they had crossed previously. At least

there were still steep and bottomless cliffs beside the

would roll into the invisible

her feet, Florence asked

chance of survival if someone falls from

the cliff and

“Leave it to fate.”

wasn’t sure, then the chances of surviving were not

little tighter for fear of falling