A Matter of Wife and Love by Mila

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.

urgent to attend to, so I won’t be able to come home tonight. You and Bria can sleep in the small room in the back.

have to be in

didn’t mention anything. “Be good and rest up. I’ll be

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

then, a trishaw passed

way to the small train station on

the desolate stone steps outside the train station, she caught sight of Steven’s

bent back, a cigarette in his hand as he

of cigarette butts were already discarded in the small garbage

he was always particular about these

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

him. “Dad, why are

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

just go to bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then,

“Where are you going?”

his head in

up to him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket and produced a ticket from

of the ticket was

where Leo’s house

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

seen through,

there? Don’t tell

spoke, Amelie was shocked at her own

they treated you!”

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

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

Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely

father’s concern was like a silent sword that

dull

her

Steven back. “Don’t go, Dad. There’s something I haven’t told you. Leo and

took him

have listened to you instead of

their marriage at first, and

persistence, so he handed his precious daughter over to

inside and out; even her child and father had

an unspeakable regret

Steven as she sobbed

like he had always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t cry. Divorce isn’t a bad thing. I just want you