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, no one has time to take care of your study,

throat. Half of what she said really catches my attention. I wonder what she will say next. But looking at her like this,

home, I will tell daddy you bully me.”

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

I should go upstairs or say something to Frances Louis.

“Sorry.”

He says suddenly.

I

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

Is Frances Louis caring

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

has nothing

I say lightly and

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

Frances Louis follows upstairs.

think he will go to his room, so I don’t say anything. But I don’t expect him to stop at the door of my

opens the door of the room ahead of me.

“Here is a gift for you.”

He says, pointing into the

What gift?

I feel puzzled and go into the

I see Susan Felton and Andrew Malan at first

are tied back to back, their mouths gagged with tape.

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

change of light, Andrew Malan moves his body and opens his

His eyes glow fiercely as he looks at me.

His eyes are popping out. His staring frightens

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

I don’t believe David Gibbs when he says someone has caught them ahead of

already said, nobody can touch my Frances Louis’s woman.

leans lazily by the door,

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 their eyes glow when they