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…”

“Anny Louis, I think you want to enroll in more tutoring classes. Anyway, after your brother is born,

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

“When I come home, I will tell daddy

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

should go upstairs or say something to Frances Louis.

“Sorry.”

He says

I ask

Anny hadn't shown up, the consequences would have been much worse.”

Louis

Louis and me is to get what we need. If mixed with emotion, it

Malan’s fault. It has nothing to

say lightly and go upstairs.

I am afraid that I could not

Frances Louis follows upstairs.

anything. But I don’t expect him

He opens the door of the room ahead of me.

is a

He says, pointing into the room.

What gift?

go into the room,

I see Susan Felton and Andrew Malan at first sight.

tied back to back, their mouths

daze, looking not well. They look as if they have

change of light, Andrew Malan moves his body and opens

as he looks at

out. His staring frightens me.

and ask, “What happened? Why are they

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

Frances Louis’s woman. They are at your

the door, not even looking at them.

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