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

little bicycle, a skateboard,

history, Amelie couldn’t stop her

face.

when Amelie stopped her.

step after careful

the darkened old

the shopfront, and it was

patterns were various and exquisite.

couldn’t help but pause in her

father anywhere, so she could only

small yard lay at the

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

movements were slow, whereas his hair was a

stared at him,

at a glance that this man in front of her was

herself a little.

When she got married, his hair was still

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

stature

this

her heart, she

man paused visibly.

he slowly

he revealed his wizened

features were calm and gentle from all

covered his face, adding to him a hint of

off his glasses as he finally recognized

toward Steven, sobbing. In her raging emotions, she wanted to hug him, but

simply stood there as tears

her hands. “It’s

singing so happily

head to toe, wiping away the tears on her face. “Child, why

thin?”

had some baby fat on her face, which was a stark contrast to her appearance now. Now,

into the Alston Family. Instead,

too cruel, and she wanted more than anything to give herself a heavy slap or

so glad you’re back.” Steven

much as he led Amelie outside. “I’ll whip something up for you. What would you like to eat?”

and he would always pamper her

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

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

should’ve been repaying her father’s grace and love for her with

cheeks once again

her firmly on the back, comforting her like he used to do in her childhood.

later, the two finally went back

the room, they caught sight of

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

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