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.

the small room in

be in such a hurry?” she asked as

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

that he might leave on the train, so

then, a trishaw passed

the trishaw and made her way to the small train station

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

a cigarette in his hand as he puffed sullenly.

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

particular about these things. He had never smoked before, nor had he ever been so

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

over to him. “Dad, why

bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands

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

are you

lowered his head

she took out the old wallet in his pocket

of the ticket was Sterlington.

the city where Leo’s house was situated!

Steven’s

Steven

thinking of doing there? Don’t tell

she spoke, Amelie was shocked at her own

to ask them how exactly they treated you!” he said

healthy when she married into their family, but now,

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

had refrained from visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to

silent sword that pierced Amelie’s heart.

was dull but

streamed down her face

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

news took him by

to you instead of going

marriage at first, and he had stopped her before.

so he

even her child and father had to bear the

felt an unspeakable regret

hugged Steven as she sobbed and apologized profusely.

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