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.

him, “You know

to look at me and answers with a smile, “Of

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

“She is your

meet in the world. Just now 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 me from Lawrence. It is obviously unusual. So, I am confused why

his head to answer me, “She is not my sibling; I am adopted by her parents. Whitney is someone with great pride, never treating me as her sibling brother. But she has never been my sister in my heart.”

confuse me more.

softly, from which I suppose they get along very well. But it might not be the truth. Is that the reason he did not tell

you like to talk with me?”

answering me, the woman singer just finishes a song to

smiles and shakes head to her who turns around

still feel something unusual by instinct, but cannot get to

“Be good to Frances as much as you can. Try to keep him with you.”

am astonished by what he

though he does not get along very well with Whitney, he should not talk with

did you say it?”