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.

in the small room in the back. I’ve already changed the sheets, and the blankets are new too,” Steven commented on

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

“Be good and rest

she also feared that he might leave on the train, so she could

trishaw

and made her way to the

train station, she caught

with his bent back, a cigarette in his

number of cigarette butts were already discarded

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

next to him.

over to him. “Dad, why are you

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

come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then, she peered into the

“Where are you going?”

his head in

him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out

the ticket

where

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

his thoughts seen through, Steven

there? Don’t tell me you’re

spoke, Amelie was shocked at

ask them how exactly they treated

was plump and healthy when she married

first, he only thought that Amelie had lost a lot of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons might not have been treating his daughter with

visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that

concern was like a silent sword that pierced

was dull but

her

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

him by huge

I should have listened to you instead of going to Leo

disapproved of their marriage at first, and

against her persistence, so he

only exhausted her inside and out; even her child and father had to bear the

unspeakable regret in

Steven as she

daughter lovingly, his heavily calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t