In My Desperate Time

“4 million? Did you eat his one-thousand-year ginseng?”

Steven Song asks me surprisingly.

He's still in the mood to joke. I'm nervous to death!

“Never mind. Anyway, I can’t pay it off for a while. So I'd better go out to relax and get some inspirations. When do we leave tomorrow?”

“Eight in the morning. I will pick you up at Louis’s house.”

Pick me up?

Forget it. It is difficult to figure out Frances Louis’s minds. Steven Song is also a man. I am afraid that he will be unhappy and lose his temper.

“At the dock, right? I’ll go there by myself.”

Then I go back to my office.

If I stayed here much longer, I'm afraid that people will think I'm doing something shady with Steven Song.

This morning Frances Louis told me to go home early. So as soon as I get off work, I hurry home without stopping.

When I get home, he hasn’t gone home yet.

Damn him! He asked me to come home early but he doesn’t come back?

Then why did he order me to come home early?

sleeves and go into the kitchen. I let Betty sit down on the couch

bought the spareribs. I'm going to make

rise up. I hold the ribs and

you not to go

Louis’s voice

carrying drop into

The pain is sharp.

He quickly turns off the fire, and takes my hand to flush under

comfortable when the cold water flushing my hand, but after the flush, it is still burning

someone is big and someone is small, and the biggest one is probably as big as a coin.

What a bloody year!

now my hand is burned. Now these are only red spots, but it'll probably be

to go into the kitchen.

Louis takes me out of the kitchen, his face horribly pale. It is the first time I ever see Frances

angry he was before, he had self-control. But today, he is

how can I be blamed for

entrance, I should not have been frightened, nor

I murmur.

Louis frowns, his sharp eyes

I wuss out immediately.

“Nothing.”

a first-aid kit, searching in it for a

the

I won’t be burned.” She says for a while, looking at the long face of