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…”

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

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

I come home, I will tell daddy you bully

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

I stand there, not knowing whether I should go upstairs

“Sorry.”

He says suddenly.

“What?” I ask confusingly.

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

Frances Louis

I deny my thought. The relationship between Frances Louis and me is to get what we need.

It has

I say lightly and go upstairs.

If I stay any longer, I am afraid that I could not conceal

Frances Louis follows upstairs.

say anything. But I don’t expect him to stop at the door

He opens the door of the room ahead of

a gift for

He says, pointing into the room.

What gift?

the room, then turn

Felton and Andrew Malan at first sight.

They are tied back to back, their

They are both in a daze, looking not well.

Sensing the change of light, Andrew Malan moves his

fiercely as he looks at me.

eyes are popping out. His staring frightens me.

Louis and ask, “What

says someone has caught them ahead of him.

Frances Louis’s

by the door, not

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