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.

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 end of

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

and rest up. I’ll be

get anything out of him, but she also feared that he might leave on

then, a trishaw

onto the trishaw and made her way to the small train

train station, she caught sight of Steven’s figure.

there with his bent back, a cigarette in his hand as he puffed sullenly.

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

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

bag sitting next to him.

him. “Dad, why are

he froze 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

you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then, she

you going?”

lowered his head

out the old wallet in his pocket and produced a ticket from within.

destination of the ticket

city where Leo’s house

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

through, Steven pursed his lips tightly.

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

spoke, Amelie was shocked at

exactly they treated you!” he said sullenly, his eyes

darling daughter was plump and healthy when she married into their family, but now,

when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons might

and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home, not

was like a silent

dull but

her

“Don’t go, Dad. There’s something I haven’t told

news took him by huge

you instead of going to Leo and

at first, and he had

her persistence, so he

only exhausted her inside and out; even her child

felt an unspeakable regret

Steven as she sobbed and apologized

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