In My Desperate Time

To be exact, she is a little girl.

She is the little girl who saved me three days ago.

Why is she here?

I don't think Frances Louis would have received her here to thank her for saving my life.

Because he doesn’t even know I am hurt.

“Aunty, you come back.” The little girl sees me and runs to me happily.

I can’t stand her enthusiasm.

“Anny, don’t hurt her.” Frances Louis warns her.

The little girl stops pouncing on me.

She turns to Frances Louis in discontent and says, “Uncle, she has been discharged from the hospital. You are too melodramatic.”

Uncle?

It turns out that she is Frances Louis' niece, so she insists on calling me aunty that day. Did she know my relationship with Frances Louis? At her age, she must know what a mistress means.

For a moment, I feel a little embarrassed.

I feel like laughing. Did she just say Frances Louis melodramatic? This is the first time I've ever heard that word used to describe him. Thinking carefully, it is true.

“You know I am injured?” I walk over and ask Frances Louis in a low voice.

He raises his eyebrows. Yes, He does.

Knowing that Frances Louis and I have a shady relationship, he would definitely not come to see me when I am in hospital. But I still feel a trace of loss.

“Aunty I tell you; my uncle is so melodramatic. These days, he wants to see you in the hospital so much, but…”

think you want to enroll in more tutoring classes. Anyway, after your brother is born,

Anny Louis's face suddenly changes and everything she wants to say was swallowed down her throat. Half of what she said really catches my attention. I wonder what

“When I come home, I will tell daddy you bully me.”

Anny Louis takes her bag and runs out. Frances Louis chuckles, as if he was not ashamed

whether I should go upstairs or say

“Sorry.”

He says suddenly.

I ask confusingly.

don’t expect Andrew Malan to come back. If Anny hadn't shown up, the consequences would have been much worse.”

Is Frances Louis caring about ne?

I deny my thought. The relationship between Frances Louis and me is to get what we need. If mixed with emotion, it

has nothing to

lightly and

I am afraid

Frances Louis follows

I don’t say anything. But I don’t expect him

the door of the room ahead of

“Here is a

says, pointing into the room.

What gift?

I feel puzzled and go into the room, then turn

Susan Felton and Andrew Malan at first

They are tied back to back, their mouths gagged with tape.

both in a daze, looking not well. They look as if they have suffered a lot.

Sensing the change of light, Andrew Malan moves his body and opens his eyes.

fiercely as he looks at me.

eyes are popping out.

Frances Louis and ask, “What happened? Why are they here?”

when he says someone has caught them ahead

“I already said, nobody can touch my Frances Louis’s woman. They

leans lazily by the door, not even

and his mother were gone. By Frances Louis’s temperament, I would estimate that Andrew Malan and his mother haven’t had