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.

in the small room in the back. I’ve already changed

in

anything. “Be good and

she also feared that he

trishaw

and made her way to the small train

outside the train station, she caught sight

cigarette in his hand as

were already discarded in the small garbage

though her father was a shoemaker, he was always particular about these things. He had never smoked before, nor had he ever been so

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

ran over to him. “Dad, why are you here?”

the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What

just go to bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then, she peered into the small train

are you going?”

his head in

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

the ticket was

was the city where Leo’s house was

Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie

seen through, Steven

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

spoke, Amelie was shocked

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

healthy when she married into their family, but

that Amelie had lost a lot of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons might not have been treating his daughter with

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

silent sword that

dull but

streamed down her face like

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

took him by

have listened to you instead of

their marriage at first, and he had stopped her

he couldn’t win against her persistence, so

her inside and out; even her child and father

unspeakable regret in

Steven as she

his heavily calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child,