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

be in such a hurry?” she asked as

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

also feared that

trishaw passed

leaped onto the trishaw and made her way to the small train station on the

steps outside the train station,

there with his bent back, a cigarette in his hand as

cigarette butts were already discarded in the small

her father was a shoemaker, he was always particular about these things. He had never

sitting next to him. It must be

ran over to him.

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

come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then,

“Where are you going?”

lowered his

great familiarity, she took out the old wallet

the ticket

the city where Leo’s

going to the Alston Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s

thoughts seen through, Steven pursed his

there? Don’t tell me you’re

was shocked at

they treated

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

first, he only thought that Amelie had lost a lot of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that

from visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that

like a silent sword that pierced

dull but

her

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

took him by huge

Dad. I should have listened to you instead of going

marriage at first, and he had

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

only exhausted her inside and out; even her child and father

unspeakable regret

as she

when she was younger. “Child, don’t cry. Divorce isn’t a