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…”

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

Half of what she said 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 daddy you bully me.”

runs out. Frances Louis chuckles, as if he

I stand there, not knowing whether I should go upstairs or say something to Frances Louis.

“Sorry.”

He says suddenly.

I

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

Is Frances Louis caring about ne?

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

fault. It has nothing

say lightly and

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

Frances Louis follows

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

He opens the door of the room

“Here is a gift for you.”

He says, pointing

What

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

I see Susan Felton and Andrew Malan at first

to back, their

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

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

His eyes glow fiercely as he looks at me.

popping out. His staring frightens

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

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

already said, nobody can touch my Frances Louis’s

leans lazily by the door, not even looking at

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 their eyes glow when