In My Desperate Time

I panic and take a couple of steps back.

“Jane, why didn’t you turn on the phone? Do you know how worried I was trying to look for you over these days?”

Frances walks over and says sternly.

I look up at him and only to realize that he is more haggard now after not seeing him for these few days. His dark eye bags are showing and his face is covered with stubble after not shaving for several days.

“I was very busy and you should know that,” I say calmly and walk past him.

Frances strides over and says behind me, “From how you look, you must have not been sleeping well for days. Why don’t you hire a private nurse?”

Private nurse?

After paying for the hospital bills and my father’s funeral costs, I only have several hundred remaining in my account. How do I have the money to hire a private nurse?

and do not say a word. There is a huge chasm between Frances’

when he sees that I am ignoring him. He grabs me and pushes me to the wall and says sternly, “At least tell me what is wrong. You should tell me even if something happened to

was really worried that

are red and throbbing with anxiety. In that trance, I realize that Frances is worried about me. But I quickly suppress this feeling. Perhaps I am in a daze due to my lack of sleep for so many days.

it, he doesn’t know that I intend to leave after purchasing the

is, we’ll talk after I settle my mother’s hospital discharge

so that I can go and settle the procedures. After returning to the patient's room, I see that Frances

way to get Frank out. Now without your father, I really don’t know how to live on

she speaks to me on her own. The pain in her eyes is real. This time my heart truly relents. I already lost my father and I

look towards France with pleading

have some

what he says. Frances will never