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.

home tonight. You and Bria can sleep in the small room

emergency is it that you have to be in such a hurry?”

mention anything. “Be good and rest up.

get anything out of him, but she also feared that he might leave on the train, so she

then, a trishaw passed

leaped onto the trishaw and made her way to the small

stone steps outside the train station, she caught sight of

a cigarette in his hand as

number of cigarette butts were already discarded in the small garbage bag next

shoemaker, he was always particular about these things.

him. It must

over to him. “Dad, why

he froze a little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his

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

“Where are you going?”

his

familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket and produced a ticket from

the ticket was

the city where

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

thoughts seen through, Steven

of doing there? Don’t tell me you’re going to

was shocked at

them how exactly they treated you!” he

“My darling daughter was plump and healthy when she married into

when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons might not have been treating his daughter

the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home, not to

like a

dull

down her face

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

news took him

to you instead of going to Leo and getting

at first, and he had

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

inside and out; even her child and father had

felt an unspeakable regret in

as she sobbed and

daughter lovingly, his heavily calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she