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…”

after your brother is born,

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

I will

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

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

“Sorry.”

He says

“What?” I ask confusingly.

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

Is Frances Louis caring about

is to get what we need. If mixed with emotion, it is not good for both of us.

Andrew Malan’s fault. It has nothing to

I say lightly and go upstairs.

stay any longer, I am afraid that

Louis follows upstairs.

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

He opens the door of the room ahead of me.

“Here is a gift for you.”

pointing

What gift?

go into the room, then turn on the light.

see Susan Felton and Andrew Malan at first sight.

back to back, their mouths

both in a daze, looking not well. They look as if they have suffered a lot.

Sensing the change of light, Andrew Malan

glow fiercely as

His eyes are popping out.

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

someone has caught them ahead of him. Now it's

already said, nobody can touch my Frances

He leans lazily by the door, not even looking at

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