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…”

“Anny Louis, I think you want to enroll in more tutoring classes. Anyway, after your brother is born, no one

say was swallowed down her throat. Half of what she said really catches my attention. I wonder

“When I come home, I will tell

her bag and runs out. Frances Louis chuckles, as

I stand there, not knowing whether I should go upstairs or say something to Frances Louis.

“Sorry.”

says suddenly.

I ask confusingly.

Anny hadn't shown up, the consequences

Is Frances Louis

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

has nothing

I say lightly and go upstairs.

am afraid that I

Frances Louis follows upstairs.

I think he will go to his room, so I don’t say anything. But I don’t expect him to

opens the door of the room ahead of

is a gift for

He says, pointing into

What gift?

I feel puzzled and go into the room,

I see Susan Felton and Andrew Malan at first sight.

to back, their mouths gagged with tape.

in a daze, looking not well. They look as

the change of light, Andrew Malan moves his body and

fiercely as

out. His staring frightens me.

Louis and ask,

don’t believe David Gibbs when he says someone has caught

can touch my Frances Louis’s woman. They are at your disposal

by the door, not even looking at them.

Malan and his mother were gone. By Frances Louis’s temperament, I would estimate that Andrew Malan and