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?

I roll up my sleeves and go into the kitchen. I let Betty sit down on the couch to

I'm going

the ribs and stand a little further, afraid to be splashed

you not to go into

Louis’s voice comes

that the ribs I am carrying drop into the

The pain is sharp.

rushes over. He quickly turns off the fire, and takes my hand

the cold water flushing my hand, but after the flush, it

and the biggest one is probably as big as a coin. I've burned myself before, but not as bad as

What a bloody year!

face and now my hand is burned. Now

not to go into the kitchen. You

face horribly pale. It is the first time I ever

was before, he had

can I be blamed for

sudden entrance, I should not have been

I murmur.

Louis frowns, his sharp eyes

I wuss out immediately.

“Nothing.”

out a first-aid kit, searching in it for a while, then looks up and asks

where's the scald

I have been cooking for so many years. Usually I won’t be burned.” She says for a while, looking at the long face of Frances Louis and