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…”

classes. Anyway, after your brother is born, no one has time to take care

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

“When I come home, I will tell daddy you

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 something to Frances

“Sorry.”

He says suddenly.

“What?” I ask confusingly.

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

Frances Louis

Louis and me is to get what we need.

It has nothing to

I say lightly and go

If I stay any longer, I am afraid that

Frances Louis follows upstairs.

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

of

“Here is a gift for

He says, pointing into the room.

What gift?

and go into the room, then turn on the

Felton and Andrew Malan at first sight.

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

daze, looking not well. They look as if

the change of light, Andrew Malan moves his body

fiercely as he

out.

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

says someone has caught them ahead of him. Now it's true.

can touch my Frances Louis’s woman.

leans lazily by the door, not even looking

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