When I Was A Wallflower

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.

home tonight. You and Bria can sleep in the small room in the back. I’ve already changed

you have to be in such a hurry?”

“Be good and rest up. I’ll

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

a trishaw

onto the trishaw and made her way to the small train station on

steps outside the train station,

his bent back, a cigarette

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

particular about these things. He had never smoked before,

next to him. It

hastily ran over to him.

her, he froze a little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing

bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried

“Where are you going?”

lowered his head

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

of the

city where Leo’s house

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

seen through, Steven pursed

doing there? Don’t

Amelie was shocked at her own

they treated you!” he said sullenly,

looked at her, heartbroken. “My darling daughter was plump and healthy when she married

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

because he wanted Amelie to live freely

like a silent sword that pierced

dull

her face like

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

news took him by

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

disapproved of their marriage at first, and he had

he couldn’t win against her persistence, so he handed

and out; even her child and father had to bear the

felt an unspeakable regret in his

she sobbed and

held his daughter lovingly, his heavily calloused hands 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