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.

something 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. I’ve already changed the sheets, and the blankets are new too,” Steven commented on the other end

you have to be in such a hurry?”

good and rest up. I’ll be

couldn’t get anything out of him, but she also feared

then, a trishaw passed by

and made her way to the small train station on the

steps outside the train station,

there with his bent back, a

of cigarette butts were already discarded in the small garbage bag

he was always particular about these

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

him. “Dad, why are you

bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing

Amelie queried while

“Where are you going?”

lowered his head in

up to him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out the

of the ticket

the city where Leo’s house

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

his thoughts seen through, Steven pursed

thinking of doing there? Don’t

was shocked

ask them how exactly they treated you!” he said

healthy when she married into their family, but

only thought that Amelie 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

because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home, not to be bullied like

concern was like a silent sword

dull

streamed down her face like

something I haven’t told you.

news took him by huge

should have listened to you

marriage at first, and he had stopped her

he couldn’t win against her persistence, so he handed his

her inside and out; even her

an unspeakable regret

she sobbed and apologized

hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t cry.