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…”

want to enroll in more tutoring classes. Anyway, after your brother is born, no one has time to

was swallowed down her throat. Half of what she said really catches my

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

Louis chuckles,

not knowing whether I should go upstairs

“Sorry.”

He says suddenly.

“What?” I ask confusingly.

don’t expect Andrew Malan to come back. If Anny hadn't shown up, the consequences

Frances Louis caring about ne?

my thought. The relationship between Frances Louis and me is to get what we need. If mixed with emotion, it is not

Malan’s fault. It has nothing

lightly and go upstairs.

am afraid that I could not

Louis follows

go to his room, so I don’t say anything. But

door of

“Here is a gift for you.”

He says, pointing into the room.

What gift?

feel puzzled and go into the room, then turn on the light.

Susan Felton and Andrew Malan

They are tied back to back, their mouths gagged

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

of light, Andrew Malan moves his body and opens his

His eyes glow fiercely as he looks

out. His staring frightens me.

I turn to look at Frances Louis and ask, “What happened? Why

someone has caught them ahead of him.

already said, nobody can touch my Frances Louis’s woman. They are at your disposal now.”

He leans lazily by the door, not even looking at them.

hospital, Andrew Malan and his mother were gone. By Frances Louis’s temperament, I would estimate that Andrew Malan and his mother haven’t had something to eat for three days. No wonder their eyes glow when they