My Sugar And Your Spice

Chapter 39

“What’s going on?” Amelie hastily asked.

Hearing that something might happen to her father, she felt her heart racing quickly.

Abby scratched her messy hair. “I’m not sure either. I was at the store buying groceries when I saw your dad walking out with a knife. I asked him why he bought a knife, but he didn’t even look at me. He just walked away angrily.”

“He bought a knife and left?” She hadn’t seen her father coming home, much less a knife.

What is he planning to do with the knife?

“Your dad has always been a quiet person, but he’d always greet his old neighbors. He never ignored us like he did today,” Abby continued.

“Do you know if my dad got in a fight with someone recently?” Amelie hastily asked.

This was no small matter, for a person’s life might be on the line.

Abby shook her head. “Your dad is an amiable person, and everyone on this street likes him. How could he get into a fight with anyone? Moreover, your dad doesn’t like to bear grudges.”

Amelie also agreed with Abby’s words.

Her father wouldn’t get mad at anything, save for matters related to her. He was especially loving and serious when it came to her.

“Did you see where my dad went? Which direction did he head in?”

The less she knew of her father’s reasons for buying the knife, the more anxious Amelie became.

“That way!” Abby pointed ahead. “Probably in the direction of the small train station!”

“The small train station?”

It was a small town, and the residents couldn’t take the high-speed train or a plane from there. They generally took the train if they were going somewhere faraway.

Is Dad going somewhere far from home?

Amelie asked Abby to look after Bria, then hastily ran off to pursue her father.

As she ran, she dialed Steven’s number.

The call went through.

“Dad, why aren’t you back yet?” Amelie tried her best to ask calmly, not letting her father catch on.

won’t be able to come home tonight. You and Bria can sleep in the small room in the back. I’ve already

you have to be in

didn’t mention anything. “Be good and

she couldn’t get anything out of him, but she also feared that he

then, a trishaw passed by

the trishaw and made her way to the small train station

stone steps outside the train

there with his bent back, a cigarette

number of cigarette butts were already discarded

was a shoemaker, he was always particular about these things. He had never smoked before, nor

sitting next to him. It must be the knife Abby

him.

saw her, he froze a little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings you here? Didn’t I ask

can we just go to bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then, she peered

“Where are you going?”

his head

out the old wallet in his pocket and produced

destination of the

where Leo’s

to the Alston Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could cook. She immediately understood

seen through, Steven

are you thinking of doing there? Don’t tell me

was

them how exactly they treated you!”

and healthy when she married into their family,

only thought that Amelie had lost a lot of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that

Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely

like a silent sword that

dull but

her face

held Steven back. “Don’t go, Dad. There’s something I haven’t told you.

news took him by huge

you instead of going

their marriage at first, and he had stopped

couldn’t win against her persistence, so

exhausted her inside and out; even her child

felt an unspeakable regret in his

Steven as she sobbed and

daughter lovingly, his heavily calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child,