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.

these past few days, and I've barely had any rest. However, I

me, Anny becomes

waist by a young man and a middle-aged woman. I don't know what

and

ex-husband and his

to think it through.

she?

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

mind is in

on the sofa again. She says to me resignedly, "How do I know where she is? I don't follow her all the

That's right.

....

so concerned that

anxious that I forget I can do it

and call

to find out where she is now. By the way, I

an hour later, Andrew and Susan are tied up and delivered to my

see me, their faces are filled with fear and