My Sugar and Your Spice (Amelia and Leo)

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

bicycle, a skateboard,

items bearing so much history, Amelie couldn’t stop

face.

was about to holler for Steven to come out when Amelie stopped her.

hand, she took step after careful

darkened old alley and finally reached the

spacious than the shopfront, and it was filled with

shoe patterns were

novel styles, she couldn’t help but pause in her tracks and reached out

father anywhere, so she could only proceed

at the back of the

he sat at an antique shoe machine. His back was bent over as his limbs moved

was

him, perfectly still.

that this man in front of her was

she doubted herself a little.

wasn’t this white. When she got married, his hair was still

so much either. He was a bonafide middle-aged man with broad shoulders and a

stature

movements weren’t this slow either….

her heart, she called in a

man paused visibly.

slowly turned around.

he revealed his wizened and wrinkled face.

calm and gentle from all the years spent on intricate

adding to

glasses as

me Amelie took a few steps toward Steven, sobbing. In her raging emotions, she wanted to hug him, but

there as tears

hurriedly went to her and took her hands. “It’s really you, Amy-you’re back. No wonder the magpie

so happily

examined Amelie from head to toe, wiping away the tears on her face. “Child,

thin?”

which was a stark contrast to her appearance now. Now, her chin was extremely sharp, and her body was

ignoring him after she married into the Alston Family. Instead, he worried greatly for her health, and this only made Amelie even

more than anything to give herself

Steven was obviously happy about

much as he led Amelie outside. “I’ll whip

loved Amelie to bits, and he would always pamper her ever since she was a baby.

had to go through a lot of trouble, he would still do everything he could to provide her with all the food she craved.

had a father who loved her to the moon and back, but she chose to go to the Alston Family to

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

cheeks once again as she hugged Steven

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

two finally

arrived at the room, they caught sight of

at the adorable little girl in between the