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, and skating shoes….

the items bearing so much history, Amelie couldn’t stop

face.

out when

she took step after careful step inside.

darkened old alley and finally reached the

interior wasn’t much more spacious than the shopfront, and it

shoe patterns were

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

so she could only proceed further to

lay at the back of the house.

yard, someone had his back to her as he sat at an antique shoe machine. His back was bent over as his

his hair was a mixture

him, perfectly

that this man in front

she doubted herself a little.

her father’s hair wasn’t this white. When she got married, his hair was still dark with an occasional silver strand

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

stature

movements weren’t this slow

Unable to contain the sorrow in her heart, she called

man paused

slowly turned

did that, he revealed

gentle from all

adding to him a

glasses as he

sobbing. In her raging emotions, she wanted to hug him, but she couldn’t bring her

simply stood there as tears

took her hands. “It’s really you, Amy-you’re back. No wonder the

singing so happily this

to toe, wiping away the tears

thin?”

on her face, which was a stark contrast to her appearance now. Now, her chin was extremely sharp, and her body was terrifyingly

Alston Family. Instead, he worried greatly for her health, and this

more than anything to give herself a heavy

back.” Steven was obviously happy about

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

had always loved Amelie to bits, and he would

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

to the moon and back, but

repaying her father’s grace and love for her with

cheeks once

the back, comforting her

later, the two finally went back

arrived at the room, they caught sight

between the shoe

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