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.

been out on business these past few days, and I've barely had any rest. However, I get such worrying news as soon

at me, Anny becomes even more

a young man and

man and a middle-aged

they her ex-husband and

think it

is she?

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

mind is

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 you just

That's right.

....

concerned that I'm

I can do it

and call her, but

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

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

faces are filled with