In My Desperate Time

As soon as I walk in, I feel urgent to back out.

I thought it would be a dinner party or something with a few people at most.

I didn’t expect to see so many people.

I stand there in a daze and don’t go out for a long time.

Everyone turns their eyes on me, which makes me even more nervous. To put it mildly, I am Frances Louis's mistress, and to attend such an event with him would make me feel embarrassed.

“Don’t be nervous, just stay with me.”

Frances Louis cocks his head and whispers in my ear. He doesn’t even look at me. How does he know I am nervous?

I look down at his coat, which has been pulled out of folds, and sheepishly let go.

Seeing his intimacy with me, everyone shows an ambiguous smile. I keep walking and feel my hands and feet out of place.

I almost walk by the same foot with the hand.

But I find that my nervousness seems unnecessary. No one seems to look at me differently. Yes, I don't have a “mistress” written on my face. I calm down with that thought.

Frances Louis takes two glasses of wine from the waiter and offers me one.

“Don’t drink, just pretend.”

I nod, holding my glass and surveying the scene around me.

It should be the dining room of this hotel, surrounded by a lot of food. So late at night, and these people are eating?

I feel a little strange.

We keep walking forward. When we pass the first man, he toasts to Frances Louis and says, “happy birthday, president Louis.”

Today is Frances Louis's birthday? No wonder these people are still here so late at night.

I turn to look at him, feeling nervous.

am so unqualified to be a mistress, because I

glasses with the man and leads me

the crowd, I see a group of girls forming a circle. Inside, there are two

and a little ruffian, and the other is stylish, I can feel his muscles bouncing even across the

You're the main character but won't show up until eleven o' clock.” The ruffian man comes out from

What's the point of having a birthday

beauty has

sentence but

am not stupid. Of course, I know what he means. I give him a black

on Frances Louis’s face. He doesn’t seem

women, seeing Frances Louis, gather around and pounce at

“Mr. Louis.”

why you

other for a long

women push desperately towards Frances

Anyway.

am hungry, and I can just take

“Jane Noyes.”

I could move, Frances Louis calls out

with a bitter face, but his two handsome friends stand beside me and smile at Frances Louis.,

are exaggerating like playing a drama. They rub against Frances Louis so hard that they could

ladies, and there's no one in this country who wouldn't want to be Mr. Louis's woman. I suppose you wouldn't mind since

women in this country want to be his woman? But I don’t want to. If I have not been cornered,

tired of seeing them.” The muscular man adds

would think I

the way.” Frances Louis says

him say it, but it doesn’t seem to

seem to be very

don’t want to get out of the way. No one would let anyone around Frances Louis. They have surround

smiles and says to the woman standing in front

your name? The daughter

enchanting, her figure is tall

to be immune to t women, and he

Frances Louis