In My Desperate Time

“Come to room 306.”

What’s wrong with Frances Louis?

His wife’s here and he wants me to go to his room? Does he want his wife to slap me in the face?

Plus, I even don’t know where the hotel he lives is, how could I go?

“No.” I refuse him directly.

Soon, Frances Louis replies.

“If you don’t come, I will come to you.”

I ignore him and put my phone on the night table.

He doesn't know which hotel I'm staying in, I'm not afraid of him!

One minute later, there is a knock at the door.

I bounce out of bed and sit there quietly, not knowing what to do.

Damn it! Frances Louis must be staying in the same hotel with me. Or why he comes so fast?!

I dare not open the door.

No good could come of Frances Louis coming to see me himself. And he sounds angry in his previous messages, which makes me more flurried.

The phone vibrates on the night table. I look at it and the message contain only three words, simple as Frances Louis always does.

“Open the door.”

The bell rings only twice before it stops, but I know Frances Louis is still outside. I also know that if I didn't open the door tonight, I would die.

also die even

period of hesitation, I put on my slippers and

Louis walks in directly and sits

with red blood. I look at the

blood on this bed to

I see a cut on Frances Louis’s

but

keeps running down,

went to

or suicide?” I ask, frowning at

he says

I have no tools.

drain away like this. I must stop the

Stop bleeding?

across

menstruation is coming and

as he looks at the menstrual pad on

I’ll go out

take the money out and buy gauze and iodophor at a nearby drugstore. When I come back, the pad has already been full of blood. A light squeeze would make the blood run like

with iodine and

“Okay, you can go.”

satisfaction, and say with relief

he holds me in his arms and lie down on the

he closes his

always afraid that this beast, Frances Louis, would do something to me. After all, in the afternoon, he tortured me for a long time because he would go on a business

after a long while,

breathing gradually becomes even, and he seems

but I dared not to sleep just now. When I let my guard down, The sleepiness rush over me. I fall asleep in the

such a long time, this is the best

I wake up, it’s eight o’clock in the morning and Frances Louis has