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.

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 are new too,” Steven commented on the other end

emergency is it that you have to be in such a

“Be good and rest up. I’ll

him, but she also feared that he might leave on the train, so she could

then, a trishaw

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

outside the train station, she

a cigarette in his hand as he puffed sullenly.

in the small garbage bag next

things. He had never smoked before, nor had he ever been so

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

over to him. “Dad, why are you here?”

black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as

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

you going?”

lowered his head in

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

destination of the ticket

the city where Leo’s

are you… going to the Alston Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie

through, Steven pursed his lips tightly.

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

she spoke, Amelie was shocked at her own words.

exactly they treated you!” he

“My darling daughter was plump and healthy when she married

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

Amelie because he wanted

was like a silent sword that pierced Amelie’s

dull but

down her

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

him

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

marriage at first, and he had stopped her

the end, he couldn’t win against her persistence, so he handed his precious

out; even her child and father had to bear

regret

she sobbed and apologized

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