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…”

Anyway, after your brother is born, no one has time to take care of your study, so you'd

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

come home, I will tell daddy you

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

knowing whether I should go upstairs or say

“Sorry.”

He says suddenly.

“What?” I ask confusingly.

Malan to come back. If Anny hadn't shown up, the consequences would

Frances Louis

Louis and me is to get what we need. If mixed with emotion, it is not

has nothing

I say lightly and

am afraid that I could not conceal my

Frances Louis follows upstairs.

think he will go to his room, so I don’t say anything. But I don’t expect him to stop at the door of my room.

door of the

“Here is a gift for you.”

pointing into the room.

What gift?

and go into the room, then turn on

Susan Felton and Andrew Malan at first sight.

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

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

of light, Andrew Malan moves his

fiercely as he looks at

His eyes are popping out. His staring frightens me.

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

he says someone

touch my Frances

lazily by the door, not

The day I went into the 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 see me.