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…”

I think you want to enroll in more tutoring classes. Anyway, after your brother is born, no one has time to take care of your

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

I come home, I will tell

Anny Louis takes her bag and runs out. Frances Louis chuckles, as if he was

knowing whether I should go upstairs or say something

“Sorry.”

He says

I ask confusingly.

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

Is Frances Louis caring about ne?

Frances Louis and me is to get what we need.

It has

I say lightly

any longer, I am afraid that

Louis follows upstairs.

I 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.

He opens the door of the

“Here is a gift for you.”

He says, pointing

What gift?

the room, then

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 lot.

of light, Andrew Malan moves his body and opens

His eyes glow 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? Why are they here?”

when he says someone has caught them ahead

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

by the door, not

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