A Matter of Wife and Love by Mila

Chapter 38

Amelie hastily picked her up and looked toward the woman.

Meanwhile, the woman was looking at them as well. “Who are you? Why are you here?”

Her expression softened a little.

She roughly pushed her messy hair over her head, revealing her entire face.

“Mrs. Gordon?” Amelie recognized the woman as she called out.

When Abby Gordon heard the beautiful girl calling her that, she couldn’t help but examine the latter.

“It’s me, Amy,” Amelie introduced herself.

It was only then that Abby recognized her. With a stomp of her foot, she clapped both her hands on her thighs ‘Amy! It’s been years since I last saw you. You’ve grown even prettier now. I almost couldn’t recognize you, and I thought you were a celebrity from somewhere.”

Amelie smiled shyly.

Abby continued, “Sorry for just now. I thought my stupid son came back, so that’s why I threw the washbasin. You weren’t hurt, were you?”

“No.” Amelie wasn’t concerned about that. She looked up and gazed at the yard behind Abby. “Where’s my dad? Is he no longer living here? Or-”

A sudden extreme fear invaded her heart, and even her voice trembled.

“Your dad is fine.” Noticing Amelie’s pale face, Abby guessed that Amelie was overthinking things, so she hastily said, “He complained about how this house was too big for one person, so he moved into the smaller house at the end of the street. Our family is huge, so I discussed it with him, and he agreed to rent the place

to us.”

Abby grinned, a guilty look flashing across her face.

Even though they called it renting, she never paid him a single cent all this while.

Steven never urged her, so she pretended it never happened.

On the other hand, Amelie wasn’t in the mood to think about these things as she said, “Can you take me to my

dad?”

“Of course.” Abby thought that since she was living in their house, she should at least help them with this little request

As she strode with her thick legs, Abby took Amelie to the end of the street.

Soon, they found a small shop facing the street.

It was rundown and shabby, and it didn’t even have a sign.

“Your dad is in there” Abby pointed at the shop as she spoke.

Amelie looked at the shop

It wasn’t just worn-out, it was pitifully tiny.

A few items were piled outside the shop, and most of them were the toys she used to play with during her

childhood

a little bicycle, a skateboard, and skating

history, Amelie couldn’t stop her tears as they

face.

Steven to come out when Amelie stopped

took step

old

more spacious than the shopfront, and it was filled

patterns were various and

Bria saw the colorful shoes in their novel styles, she couldn’t help but pause in her tracks and reached out to touch

see her father anywhere, so she

yard lay at the back of

sat at an antique shoe machine. His back was bent over as his limbs moved to

whereas his hair was a mixture of gray and

stared at him, perfectly

at a glance that this man in front of her was none other

doubted

father’s hair wasn’t this white. When she got married, his hair was still dark with an occasional silver

bent so much either. He was a bonafide middle-aged man with broad shoulders

stature

weren’t

her heart, she called in a

working man

he slowly

he revealed his wizened and wrinkled

from all the years

glasses covered his face, adding to him a hint of

slowly took off his glasses as he finally

sobbing. In her raging

as

and took her hands. “It’s really you, Amy-you’re back. No wonder the

singing so happily this

wiping away the tears

thin?”

his memories, Amelie always had some baby fat on her face, which was a stark contrast to her appearance now. Now, her chin was extremely sharp,

her for ignoring him after she married into the Alston Family. Instead, he worried greatly for her health, and this

felt like she had been too cruel, and she wanted more than anything to

home. I’m so glad you’re back.”

much as he led Amelie outside. “I’ll whip something up for you. What would you like to

bits, and he would always pamper her ever since she

if it were the middle of the night, or if he had to go through a lot of trouble, he would still do everything he could to provide her

loved her to the moon and back, but

father’s grace and love for her with her

rolled down Amelie’s cheeks

on the back, comforting her like he used to do in her

later, the two finally went

at the room, they caught

girl in between the shoe racks, his eyes lighting up

her to Steven.