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?

word. There is a huge chasm between Frances’ world of wealth and the poverty of

grabs me and pushes me to the wall and says

know that I was really worried that something happened

red and throbbing with anxiety. In that trance, I realize that Frances is worried about me. But I quickly suppress this feeling. Perhaps I

the looks of it, he doesn’t know that I intend to leave after purchasing the air tickets. Otherwise, he will be

after I settle

can go and settle the procedures. After returning to the

ask Mr. Louis to think of a way to get Frank out. Now without your father, I

real. This time my heart truly relents. I already lost

look towards France with

I have some terms,” Frances

surprised by what he says. Frances will never do anything that