Chapter 38

Amelie hastily picked her up and looked toward the woman.

Meanwhile, the woman was looking at them as well. “Who are you? Why are you here?”

Her expression softened a little.

She roughly pushed her messy hair over her head, revealing her entire face.

“Mrs. Gordon?” Amelie recognized the woman as she called out.

When Abby Gordon heard the beautiful girl calling her that, she couldn’t help but examine the latter.

“It’s me, Amy,” Amelie introduced herself.

It was only then that Abby recognized her. With a stomp of her foot, she clapped both her hands on her thighs ‘Amy! It’s been years since I last saw you. You’ve grown even prettier now. I almost couldn’t recognize you, and I thought you were a celebrity from somewhere.”

Amelie smiled shyly.

Abby continued, “Sorry for just now. I thought my stupid son came back, so that’s why I threw the washbasin. You weren’t hurt, were you?”

“No.” Amelie wasn’t concerned about that. She looked up and gazed at the yard behind Abby. “Where’s my dad? Is he no longer living here? Or-”

A sudden extreme fear invaded her heart, and even her voice trembled.

“Your dad is fine.” Noticing Amelie’s pale face, Abby guessed that Amelie was overthinking things, so she hastily said, “He complained about how this house was too big for one person, so he moved into the smaller house at the end of the street. Our family is huge, so I discussed it with him, and he agreed to rent the place

to us.”

Abby grinned, a guilty look flashing across her face.

Even though they called it renting, she never paid him a single cent all this while.

Steven never urged her, so she pretended it never happened.

On the other hand, Amelie wasn’t in the mood to think about these things as she said, “Can you take me to my

dad?”

“Of course.” Abby thought that since she was living in their house, she should at least help them with this little request

As she strode with her thick legs, Abby took Amelie to the end of the street.

Soon, they found a small shop facing the street.

It was rundown and shabby, and it didn’t even have a sign.

“Your dad is in there” Abby pointed at the shop as she spoke.

Amelie looked at the shop

It wasn’t just worn-out, it was pitifully tiny.

A few items were piled outside the shop, and most of them were the toys she used to play with during her

childhood

was a little bicycle, a skateboard, and skating

history, Amelie couldn’t stop her tears as they streamed right

face.

Steven to come out when

hand, she took step after careful

darkened old alley and

interior wasn’t much more spacious than the shopfront, and it was filled with shoe patterns.

shoe patterns were

she couldn’t help but

her father anywhere, so she could only proceed

small yard lay at the back of the

yard, someone had his back to her as he sat at an antique shoe machine. His back was bent over

movements were slow, whereas his hair was a mixture of gray

stared at him, perfectly still.

that this man in front of her was none other

herself

married, his hair was still dark with an occasional silver strand here

wasn’t bent so much either. He was a bonafide middle-aged man with broad

stature

weren’t this

contain the sorrow in her

working man

he slowly

did that, he revealed his wizened

all the years spent on

covered his face, adding to him a hint of a bookish aura.

glasses as

me, Dad. It’s me Amelie took a few steps toward Steven, sobbing. In her raging emotions, she wanted to hug him, but she couldn’t bring her feet forward.

stood there as tears fell from her eyes.

to her and took her hands. “It’s really you,

so happily this

wiping away the tears on her face.

thin?”

some baby fat on her face, which was a stark contrast to her

into the Alston Family. Instead, he worried greatly for her health, and this only made Amelie even more

wanted more

Steven

ask too much as he led Amelie outside. “I’ll whip something up for you. What would you like to eat?”

to bits, and he would always pamper her ever since she was

the night, or if he had to go through a lot of

the moon and back, but she chose to go to

been repaying her father’s grace and love for her with her whole heart, but she wasted her

Amelie’s cheeks once

patted her firmly on the back, comforting her like he used to

long while later, the two

arrived at the room, they

Steven gazed at the adorable little girl in between the shoe racks, his eyes lighting

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