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.

sleep in the small room in the back. I’ve already changed the sheets,

have to be in such a hurry?” she

and

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

trishaw passed by

made her way to the small train

desolate stone steps outside the train station, she caught

sat there with his bent back, a cigarette

already discarded in the small garbage bag next

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

to him. It must be the knife Abby was talking

him. “Dad,

Steven saw her, he froze a little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings

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

the ticket

the city where Leo’s house was

to the Alston Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said

seen through, Steven pursed his

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

she spoke, Amelie was shocked at her own

to ask them how exactly they

“My darling daughter was plump and healthy when she

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

and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely

was like a silent sword that pierced Amelie’s

dull but

down her

Dad. There’s something I haven’t told you. Leo and

news took him by

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

disapproved of their marriage at first, and

couldn’t win against her persistence, so he

and out; even her child and father

unspeakable regret in

as she

hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child,