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.

able to come home tonight. You and Bria can sleep in the small room in the back.

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

didn’t mention anything. “Be good and

get anything out of him, but she also feared that he might leave on the train, so she could only

trishaw passed by

the trishaw and made her way to the small train

stone steps outside the train station, she caught sight of

his bent back, a cigarette in his hand as

number of cigarette butts were already discarded in the small garbage

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

next to him. It must be the knife Abby was talking about.

him. “Dad, why are you here?”

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

can we just go to bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while

are you

lowered his head

up to him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket and produced a

the ticket

was the city where Leo’s house was situated!

Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could cook. She immediately

Steven

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

she spoke, Amelie was shocked at her

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

plump and healthy when she married into their family,

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

refrained from visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home, not to be bullied

like a silent sword that

dull

down her

something I haven’t

him by

Dad. I should have listened to you instead of going to Leo

disapproved of their marriage at first, and he had stopped her

persistence, so

inside and out; even her child and father had

regret

Steven as she sobbed and apologized profusely.

hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child,