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

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

and rest up.

get anything out of him, but she also feared that he might leave on the train, so she could only

a trishaw passed

the trishaw and made her way to the small train

outside the train station, she caught sight of

his bent back, a

number of cigarette butts were already discarded in the small garbage bag

particular about these things. He had never smoked before,

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

ran 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 and Bria

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

“Where are you going?”

his

up to him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet

the ticket was

city where Leo’s house

are you… going to the Alston Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression

his thoughts seen through,

of doing there? Don’t tell

was shocked at her own

them how exactly they treated you!” he

healthy when she married into their

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 due

contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to

was like a silent

dull

down her face like

Dad. There’s something I haven’t

took him by huge

nodded. “I’m sorry, Dad. I should have listened to you instead of going to

of their marriage at first, and he had stopped her

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

not only exhausted her inside and out; even her child

an unspeakable regret in

she sobbed

caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t cry. Divorce isn’t a bad thing. I just want you to be safe