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

was a little bicycle, a skateboard, and

items bearing so much history, Amelie couldn’t stop her tears as they

face.

to come out when Amelie stopped her. “I’ll

took step after careful

past the darkened old alley and finally reached

spacious than the shopfront, and it was filled

patterns were various

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

her father anywhere, so she could only proceed further to look for

small yard lay at

antique shoe machine. His back was bent over as his limbs moved to operate

whereas his hair

stared at him,

recognize at a glance that this man in front

she doubted herself

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

back wasn’t bent so much either. He was a bonafide middle-aged man with broad shoulders and a

stature

movements weren’t this

contain the sorrow in her heart, she called in

man paused

he slowly turned

he revealed his

gentle from all the

adding to him a hint of a bookish

as he finally recognized her.

sobbing. In her raging emotions, she wanted to hug him, but she couldn’t bring her

stood there as

to her and took her hands. “It’s really you, Amy-you’re

singing so happily

Amelie from head to toe, wiping away the tears on her face.

thin?”

a stark contrast to her appearance now. Now, her chin

married into the Alston Family. Instead, he worried greatly for her health, and this only made

too cruel, and she wanted more than anything to give herself

back.”

Amelie outside. “I’ll whip

he would

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

her to the moon and back, but she chose to go to the Alston

should’ve been repaying her father’s grace and love for her with her

of regret rolled down Amelie’s cheeks once

the back, comforting her like he used to do

long while later, the

at the room, they

at the adorable little girl in between the shoe

walked over to Bria and led her to Steven. “Dad, this

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