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.

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

have to be

good and

feared

a trishaw passed by

made her way to the small

the desolate stone steps outside the train station, she

sat there with his bent back, a cigarette in his hand as

were already discarded in the small

her father was a shoemaker, he was always particular about these things. He

bag sitting next to him. It must be

over to him. “Dad, why are you

her, he froze a little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands

Amelie queried while looking at him.

“Where are you going?”

his head in

great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket

of the

was the city where

suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie

his thoughts seen through, Steven pursed his lips

you thinking of doing there? Don’t

was

to ask them how exactly they treated

darling daughter was plump and healthy when she married into their

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

years, he had refrained from visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he

a silent sword that pierced Amelie’s

was dull

down her face like

go, Dad. There’s something I

him by huge

I should have listened to you instead of going to Leo and getting married

first,

he couldn’t win against her persistence, so he handed his precious daughter

marriage not only exhausted her inside and out; even her child and father had

an unspeakable regret in

hugged Steven as she

his heavily calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger.