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…”

is born, no one has time to take care of

she said really catches my

“When I come home, I will tell daddy you

out. Frances Louis chuckles, as if he was not ashamed

stand there, not knowing whether I should go upstairs or say

“Sorry.”

He says suddenly.

I ask confusingly.

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

Frances Louis caring about

I deny my thought. The relationship between Frances Louis and me is to get what we need. If mixed with emotion, it is not good

has nothing to do with

lightly and go

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

Frances Louis follows upstairs.

room, so I don’t say anything. But I

door of the room ahead

“Here is a gift for you.”

says, pointing into the

What gift?

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

I see Susan Felton and Andrew Malan at first sight.

They are tied back to back,

looking not well. They look as if they have suffered

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

eyes glow fiercely as he looks at me.

popping out. His staring frightens

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

David Gibbs when he says someone has caught them ahead of him. Now it's

Frances Louis’s

He leans lazily by the door, not even looking at them.

would estimate that Andrew Malan and his mother haven’t had something to eat for three days. No wonder their eyes