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

a skateboard,

bearing so much history, Amelie couldn’t stop her tears as

face.

for Steven to come out when Amelie stopped her. “I’ll go in on my own.”

she took step

past the darkened old

spacious than the shopfront, and it was filled with shoe patterns.

were

the colorful shoes in their novel styles, she couldn’t help but pause in her tracks and reached out to

anywhere, so she could only proceed further to look for

small yard lay at the back of

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

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

him,

at a glance that this man in front of her was none other than her

she doubted herself

her father’s hair wasn’t this white. When she got married, his

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

stature

this slow either….

contain the sorrow in her heart, she called in a low

working man

slowly turned

did that, he revealed his wizened and wrinkled

features were calm and gentle from all the years

adding to him a hint of a bookish

his glasses as he finally recognized

few steps toward Steven, sobbing. In her raging emotions, she wanted

simply stood there as tears fell

her hands. “It’s really you, Amy-you’re back.

singing so happily this

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

thin?”

contrast to her appearance now. Now, her chin was extremely sharp, and her body was terrifyingly

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

cruel, and she wanted more than anything to give herself

home. I’m so glad you’re back.” Steven

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

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

it were the middle of the night, or if he had to go through a lot of trouble, he would still do everything he could to provide

her to the moon and back, but she chose to go to the

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

cheeks once again

the back, comforting her like

while later, the two finally went back

at the room, they caught

Steven gazed at the adorable little girl in between the shoe racks, his eyes lighting up in an instant.