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.

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

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

good and

feared that he might leave on

trishaw passed

the trishaw and made her way to the small train station on the wobbly

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

there with his bent back, a cigarette in his

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

about these things. He had never

to him. It must be the knife Abby was

him. “Dad, why are

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

queried while looking at him. Then, she peered into

are you

head in

with great familiarity, she took out the old

of the ticket was

where Leo’s house was

suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could

seen through, Steven

of doing there? Don’t

she spoke, Amelie was shocked at her

to ask them how exactly they treated you!” he said sullenly, his eyes obviously reddening.

heartbroken. “My darling daughter was plump and healthy

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

Alstons and contacting Amelie because he

was like a silent sword that

was dull

her face like rain.

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

him

I should have listened to you instead of going to Leo and getting married to

first, and

couldn’t win against her persistence, so

her inside and out; even her child and father

regret in

as she

calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t cry. Divorce isn’t