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

bicycle, a skateboard, and

bearing so much history, Amelie couldn’t stop her

face.

Steven to come out when Amelie stopped her.

hand, she took step

past the darkened old alley and finally reached the

much more spacious than the shopfront, and it was filled with

were

in their novel styles, she couldn’t help but pause in her tracks

so she could only

at the back of

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

hair was

stared at him,

front of her was none

doubted

white. When she got married, his hair was still dark with an occasional silver strand here

was a bonafide middle-aged man with broad

stature

weren’t

to contain the sorrow in her heart, she called in

man

he slowly turned

he revealed his wizened and wrinkled

were calm and gentle from all the years spent on

reading glasses covered his face, adding to him a hint of a

as he finally

steps toward Steven, sobbing. In her raging emotions, she wanted to hug him, but she

there as tears fell from her

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

so happily this

the tears

thin?”

stark contrast to her appearance now. Now, her

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

had been too cruel, and she wanted more than anything to give herself a heavy slap or

back.” Steven was obviously happy about

much as he led Amelie outside. “I’ll whip something

to bits, and he would always pamper her ever since she was a

to go through a lot of trouble,

a father who loved her to the moon and back, but she chose to go to the Alston Family to

her father’s grace and love for her with her whole heart, but she

cheeks once

patted her firmly on the back, comforting her like he used

the two finally went

the room, they caught sight of

between the shoe

led her to Steven. “Dad, this is

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