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…”

your brother is born, no one has time to take care of your study, so

really catches my attention. I wonder what she will say next. But looking at her like this, I should have no chance

“When I come home, I will tell

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

there, not knowing whether I should go upstairs

“Sorry.”

says suddenly.

“What?” I ask

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

Is Frances Louis caring about

what we need. If mixed with emotion, it is not

“It’s Andrew Malan’s fault. It has nothing to do

I say lightly and go upstairs.

any longer, I am afraid that I could not conceal my feelings.

Louis follows upstairs.

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

He opens the door of the room

a

pointing

What gift?

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

see Susan Felton and Andrew

back to back, their

daze, looking not well. They look as if

the change of light, Andrew Malan moves his body and opens his eyes.

glow fiercely as

His eyes are popping out.

Frances Louis and ask, “What happened? Why are they here?”

David Gibbs when he says someone

my Frances

He leans lazily by the door, not

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