In My Desperate Time

I don’t want to go head to head with Frances Louis, but there is nothing I could do. I have to walk past him to get to work.

He has seen me and I can’t pretend not seeing him, I can only say hi.

“What a coincidence! President Louis.”

Before I finish my sentence, I am dragged by him into the car.

Frances Louis slams the door shut, and for a moment the atmosphere inside is eerily quiet.

The low pressure makes me breathless.

Looking at Frances Louis, I notice that his face is sullen, too, and that his eyes are as deep as ink. I don’t know what he is thinking.

I try to open the door, but it is locked.

“President Louis, I have to go to work, would you please…”

Frances Louis turns and asks me with his eye half-opened.

is that

know he is

I am not surprised to know that he doesn’t

just having lunch.” I

say is true, why I still

sneers and looks at me sideways, “Classmate? I heard everything he said that day outside The Cloud Heaven. It was his coat

have never heard Frances Louis say so much words

annoyed him. Men are more

I was in high school, and that’s the past, do you have any problem?” I say

my body. Does he also want to have my

possible that a person like Frances Louis will

still like you when he finds out what you are doing now?

Louis’s words stab into

isn’t talking about my divorce. He is talking about the fact that I am now his mistress, the most despised “profession”. In the mind of Noah Jefferson, maybe I am still the simple, proud girl, but life has

am not good for him,

truth makes my