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.

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

me, Anny becomes even more

young man and a middle-aged woman. I don't

young man and

her ex-husband and

think it through. I

is she?

idea that something so big has happened. I have promised to

mind is in

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

That's right.

....

concerned that I'm

anxious that I forget I can

out my phone and call her,

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

are tied up and delivered to my

they see me, their faces are filled