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.

the small room in the back. I’ve

emergency is it that you have to be in such a

good and rest up. I’ll

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

then, a trishaw passed

leaped onto the trishaw and made her way to the small

train station,

back, a cigarette in his hand

of cigarette butts were already discarded

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

next to him. It must

ran over to him. “Dad, why

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

to bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him.

“Where are you going?”

lowered his

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

destination of the

was the city where

suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could cook. She immediately understood

through, Steven pursed his lips

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

was shocked

just going to ask them how exactly they treated you!” he said sullenly, his eyes obviously

plump and healthy when she married

of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that

he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home, not to be bullied like

a silent

was dull but

down her face

something I haven’t told

news took him by huge

Dad. I should have listened to you instead of going

first, and he had

the end, he couldn’t win against her persistence, so he handed his precious daughter over to the

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

an unspeakable regret

as she sobbed and

like he had always done when she was