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.

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

that you have to be in such a

mention anything. “Be good and rest up. I’ll be

out of him, but she also feared that he might leave on the train, so she could only hang

trishaw passed by

and made her way to the small train station on the wobbly

the desolate stone steps outside the train station, she

back, a

already discarded in the small

father was a shoemaker, he was always particular about these

to him. It must be

him.

he froze a little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings you here? Didn’t I

bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at

“Where are you going?”

lowered his

Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old

the ticket

the city where Leo’s house was

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

through, Steven

what are you thinking of doing there? Don’t

she spoke, Amelie was shocked at her own

to ask them how exactly they treated

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

weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking

years, he had refrained from visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home, not

like a silent sword that

dull but

her face

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

news took him by huge

should have listened to you instead of going to Leo and getting

at first, and he had stopped her

win against her persistence, so

even

felt an unspeakable regret in his

Steven as she sobbed and

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