In My Desperate Time

"Frances, how is your sweetheart?"

She asks me with her big bright eyes wide.

I've just come back from a business trip, so I'm too exhausted to tangle with this little hobgoblin.

I glance at her and say disapprovingly, "What sweetheart? I don't know what you're talking about. Your parents are coming back next month, so why don't you think about how to deal with them?"

Anny's small face immediately clouds over.

She curls her lips and says to me, "Frances, can't you just stop asking such a hurtful question? You know that when my parents come back, it will be an endless torture for me."

After a long sigh, she suddenly turns to me in confusion.

"Frances, Jane is injured. Why are you still so calm?"

Jane is injured?

What's going on?

"What's wrong with Jane? Tell me!" I snap at her, rising from my seat with my heart in my mouth.

days, and I've barely had any rest. However, I get such

at me, Anny becomes

the waist by a young man

and

they her ex-husband and his

I'm too worried to think it

is she?

that something so big has happened. I have promised to protect her. Is that how I keep my

is

sits down on the sofa again. She says to me resignedly, "How do I know where she is?

That's right.

....

concerned that I'm

I forget I can do it by a phone

and call her, but no

ask them to find out where she is now. By the way, I ask them to bring Susan

and Susan are tied up and delivered to my

faces