My Sugar And Your Spice

Chapter 38

Amelie hastily picked her up and looked toward the woman.

Meanwhile, the woman was looking at them as well. “Who are you? Why are you here?”

Her expression softened a little.

She roughly pushed her messy hair over her head, revealing her entire face.

“Mrs. Gordon?” Amelie recognized the woman as she called out.

When Abby Gordon heard the beautiful girl calling her that, she couldn’t help but examine the latter.

“It’s me, Amy,” Amelie introduced herself.

It was only then that Abby recognized her. With a stomp of her foot, she clapped both her hands on her thighs ‘Amy! It’s been years since I last saw you. You’ve grown even prettier now. I almost couldn’t recognize you, and I thought you were a celebrity from somewhere.”

Amelie smiled shyly.

Abby continued, “Sorry for just now. I thought my stupid son came back, so that’s why I threw the washbasin. You weren’t hurt, were you?”

“No.” Amelie wasn’t concerned about that. She looked up and gazed at the yard behind Abby. “Where’s my dad? Is he no longer living here? Or-”

A sudden extreme fear invaded her heart, and even her voice trembled.

“Your dad is fine.” Noticing Amelie’s pale face, Abby guessed that Amelie was overthinking things, so she hastily said, “He complained about how this house was too big for one person, so he moved into the smaller house at the end of the street. Our family is huge, so I discussed it with him, and he agreed to rent the place

to us.”

Abby grinned, a guilty look flashing across her face.

Even though they called it renting, she never paid him a single cent all this while.

Steven never urged her, so she pretended it never happened.

On the other hand, Amelie wasn’t in the mood to think about these things as she said, “Can you take me to my

dad?”

“Of course.” Abby thought that since she was living in their house, she should at least help them with this little request

As she strode with her thick legs, Abby took Amelie to the end of the street.

Soon, they found a small shop facing the street.

It was rundown and shabby, and it didn’t even have a sign.

“Your dad is in there” Abby pointed at the shop as she spoke.

Amelie looked at the shop

It wasn’t just worn-out, it was pitifully tiny.

A few items were piled outside the shop, and most of them were the toys she used to play with during her

childhood

was a little bicycle, a skateboard, and

items bearing so much history, Amelie couldn’t stop her

face.

to holler for Steven to come out

Bria’s hand, she took step after

it past the darkened old alley and finally reached the

the shopfront, and it was filled with

were various

saw the colorful shoes in their novel styles, she couldn’t help but pause in

father anywhere, so she could only proceed further to look

small yard lay at the back

had his back to her as he sat at an antique shoe machine. His back was bent over as his

slow, whereas his hair was a mixture

stared at him, perfectly

recognize at a glance that this man in front of her was none other than her father, Steven

doubted

memories, her father’s hair wasn’t this white. When she got married, his hair was still dark with an occasional silver strand

wasn’t bent so much either. He was a bonafide middle-aged man with

stature

weren’t this

Unable to contain the sorrow in her

man paused

slowly

revealed his

and gentle from all the years spent on

black-rimmed reading glasses covered his face, adding to him a hint of a bookish

slowly took off his glasses as

toward Steven, sobbing. In her raging

there as tears

her hands. “It’s

singing so happily this

from head to toe, wiping away the tears on

thin?”

had some baby fat on her face, which was a stark contrast to her appearance now. Now, her chin was extremely sharp, and her body

him after she married into the Alston Family. Instead, he worried greatly for her health, and this only made Amelie even

she had been too cruel, and she wanted more

I’m so glad you’re back.” Steven was obviously

he led Amelie outside. “I’ll whip something up

Amelie to bits, and he would always pamper her ever

through a lot of trouble, he would still do everything he could to provide her with all the food

moon and back, but she chose to go to the Alston Family to

love for her with her whole heart, but she wasted her

of regret rolled down Amelie’s cheeks once

her like he used to

while later, the two finally went

they arrived at the room, they caught sight of

adorable little girl in between the shoe racks,