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.

few days, and I've barely had any

Anny becomes even

young man and

and a middle-aged

her ex-husband and his

too worried to think it through.

is she?

big has happened. I have promised to protect her. Is that

mind is in a

my hand and sits down on the sofa again. She says to me resignedly, "How do I know where she is? I don't follow her all the time. Why don't

That's right.

....

concerned that I'm being

that I forget I can do it by a phone

take out my phone and

subordinates and ask them to find out where she is now.

and Susan are tied up and delivered

me, their faces are filled with fear