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.

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 on the other

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

didn’t mention anything. “Be good and rest

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

trishaw

her way to the small

steps outside the train

sat there with his bent back, a cigarette in his

discarded in

her father was a shoemaker, he was always particular about these things. He had never smoked before, nor had he

small black bag sitting next to him. It must be

over to him. “Dad, why are you

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 ask you and Bria to go to

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

are you

his head

familiarity, she took out the old wallet

destination of the ticket was Sterlington.

city where Leo’s house was situated!

recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could cook.

his thoughts seen through, Steven pursed

of doing there? Don’t tell me you’re going to kill Leo!”

spoke, Amelie was shocked at her

them how exactly they treated you!” he said

“My darling daughter was plump and healthy when she

a lot of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that

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

was like a silent

dull

her face like rain.

I haven’t told you. Leo and I… filed

took him by huge

to you instead of going to Leo and getting married to him.”

their marriage at first,

her persistence, so he

out; even her

unspeakable regret in his

as she

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