In My Desperate Time

“Who’s that?” I can guess but not sure about my answer.

Lawrence says, “It’s too much to say it here. We should go somewhere causal and talk about details.”

In his view, some bars should be casual enough for us to have a longer talk.

Finally, he takes me one quieter bar different from those I have been to before.

There is a woman singing on the middle of the stage; the audience keeps listening quietly.

Lawrence watched the singer. I followed his eyes to look at her to find she is really similar to Whitney Jordan. The two women almost look the same.

I have to tell him, “She looks like Whitney.”

Lawrence laughs, “I know.” And then he looks at the singer tenderly one more time.

Immediately from his eyes, I realize he gets a lot of problems or concerns in his mind.

“You know Whitney very well?”

and answers with a

he has the same family name with Whitney. There are not so many wealthy families in the city; most of persons with the same

is

Lawrence told me he is Whitney’s elder brother; he knows Frances as Whitney’s husband and Frances has an affair with me. However, Whitney has never got to know something about Frances and

Whitney is someone with great pride, never treating

me more.

might not be the truth. Is that the reason he did not tell her

“What would you like

finishes a song to walk to us.

shakes head to her who turns

still feel something unusual by instinct, but cannot

Frances as much as you can. Try to keep

am astonished by

with Whitney, he should not talk with me about it. Whitney will hate him badly for

ask him, “Why did