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.

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

to be in such a hurry?” she asked

“Be good and

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

then, a trishaw passed

made her way to the small train station on the wobbly

train station, she caught sight

sat there with his bent back, a cigarette

cigarette butts were already discarded in the small garbage bag

these things. He had never smoked before,

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

over to him. “Dad, why are

he froze a little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said,

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

“Where are you going?”

his

great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket and produced a

the ticket

where Leo’s house

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

seen through, Steven pursed

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

spoke, Amelie was shocked at

exactly they

heartbroken. “My darling daughter was plump and healthy when she married into their family,

Bria mentioned how good

because he

concern was like a silent sword that pierced

dull but

streamed down her

I haven’t told you. Leo and I… filed

took him

should have listened to you instead of going to

at first, and he had stopped

couldn’t win against her persistence, so he handed

even her child

unspeakable

hugged Steven as she sobbed and

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