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.

home tonight. You and Bria can sleep in the small room in the back. I’ve already changed the sheets, and

it that you have to be in such a hurry?” she asked as she

didn’t mention anything. “Be good and

get anything out of him, but she also feared that he might leave on the train, so she

then, a trishaw passed

her way to the small train station on

steps outside the train station, she

a cigarette in his hand as he

were already discarded in the small

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

him.

ran over to him.

bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings you here? Didn’t I ask

you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then, she peered into

“Where are you going?”

his

to him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out the

the ticket

where Leo’s

recalled Steven’s expression when Bria

his thoughts seen through, Steven pursed

what are you thinking of doing there?

spoke, Amelie was shocked at her own

exactly they treated you!” he

plump and healthy when she married into their family, but now,

weight, but when Bria mentioned how good

had refrained from visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to

was like a silent sword that pierced

was dull

streamed down her face like

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

news took him by huge

you instead of going to Leo

disapproved of their marriage at first, and he had stopped her

win against her persistence, so he handed his precious

even her child and

unspeakable regret in

hugged Steven as she sobbed

always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t cry. Divorce isn’t a bad thing. I just want you to be