My Sugar and Your Spice (Amelia and Leo)

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.

You and Bria can sleep in the small room in the back. I’ve

that you have to be in such a

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

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

then, a trishaw passed

made her way to the small train

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

bent back, a cigarette in his

cigarette butts were already discarded in the small

particular about these things. He had never smoked before, nor had

black bag sitting next to him. It must

him. “Dad,

away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings you here? Didn’t I ask you

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

you

head

the old wallet in his

the ticket was Sterlington.

city where Leo’s

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

thoughts seen through, Steven pursed his

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

shocked at her own

ask them how exactly they treated you!” he said sullenly, his

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

lost a lot of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons might not have

he wanted Amelie to live

like a silent sword

was dull but

down her face like

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

him by

I should have listened to you instead of going to

at first,

persistence, so he handed his precious daughter over to the Alstons.

marriage not only exhausted her inside and out; even her child and father had to

unspeakable regret in his

as she

like he had always done when she was younger.