When I Was a Wallflower (Leo and Amelie)

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

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

good and rest up. I’ll be

him, but she also feared that

a trishaw passed by

the trishaw and made her way to the small train station on

the desolate stone steps outside the train station, she caught sight of Steven’s

cigarette in his hand as he puffed

were already discarded in the small garbage bag next

these things. He had never

black bag sitting next to him. It must be the knife Abby

to him. “Dad, why are you

the cigarette away, rubbing his

can we just go to bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then, she

you going?”

his head in

Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket

the ticket

city where Leo’s house was

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

his thoughts seen through, Steven pursed his lips tightly.

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

shocked at her own

going to ask them how exactly they treated you!” he said sullenly, his eyes

at her, heartbroken. “My darling daughter was plump and healthy when she married into

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

he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home, not to be bullied

was like a silent sword that pierced Amelie’s

dull

her face

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

news took him by huge surprise.

have listened to you instead of going to Leo and getting married to

of their marriage at first, and he had stopped her

so he handed his precious daughter over to the

and out; even

unspeakable regret in his

hugged Steven as she sobbed and

held his daughter lovingly, his heavily calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t cry. Divorce isn’t a bad thing. I just want you to be