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 attend to, so I won’t be able to come home tonight. You and Bria can sleep in the small room in the back. I’ve already changed the sheets, and the blankets

is it that you have to be in such

good and rest up. I’ll be

get anything out of him, but she also feared that he

then, a trishaw passed

made her way to

outside the train station, she caught sight of Steven’s

a

already discarded in the small garbage bag next

particular about these things. He

bag sitting next to him. It must be the knife Abby

him. “Dad, why are

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 you and Bria

to bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then, she peered into the small train

“Where are you going?”

lowered his head

to him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket and produced

the ticket was

the city where Leo’s

Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when

seen through, Steven pursed his lips

doing there? Don’t tell me you’re going to kill

spoke, Amelie was shocked

to ask them how exactly they treated you!” he said

heartbroken. “My darling daughter was plump and healthy

when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons might not have been treating

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

was like a silent sword that pierced Amelie’s

dull

her face

I haven’t told you. Leo

took him by

should have listened to you instead

at first, and he

against her persistence, so he handed

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

felt an unspeakable regret in his

she sobbed and

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