In My Desperate Time novel Chapter 170

“Who’s that?” I can guess but not sure about my answer.

Lawrence says, “It’s too much to say it here. We should go somewhere causal and talk about details.”

In his view, some bars should be casual enough for us to have a longer talk.

Finally, he takes me one quieter bar different from those I have been to before.

There is a woman singing on the middle of the stage; the audience keeps listening quietly.

Lawrence watched the singer. I followed his eyes to look at her to find she is really similar to Whitney Jordan. The two women almost look the same.

I have to tell him, “She looks like Whitney.”

Lawrence laughs, “I know.” And then he looks at the singer tenderly one more time.

Immediately from his eyes, I realize he gets a lot of problems or concerns in his mind.

I ask him, “You know Whitney very well?”

Now he turns to look at me and answers with a smile, “Of course. Actually, she is my younger sister.”

Until this moment, I realize that he has the same family name with Whitney. There are not so many wealthy families in the city; most of persons with the same family name should be kin.

I ask further, “She is your sibling?”

Whitney is the last person whom I would like to meet in the world. Just now Lawrence told me he is Whitney’s elder brother; he knows Frances as Whitney’s husband and Frances has an affair with me. However, Whitney has never got to know something about Frances and me from Lawrence. It is obviously unusual. So, I am confused why he came to see me today.

Lawrence shakes his head to answer me, “She is not my sibling; I am adopted by her parents. Whitney is someone with great pride, never treating me as her sibling brother. But she has never been my sister in my heart.”

His words confuse me more.

I heard he talked about Whitney softly, from which I suppose they get along very well. But it might not be the truth. Is that the reason he did not tell her anything about Frances and me?

I ask Lawrence, “What would you like to talk with me?”

Before Lawrence answering me, the woman singer just finishes a song to walk to us.

Lawrence smiles and shakes head to her who turns around at once.

I don’t think they are strangers. I still feel something unusual by instinct, but cannot get to the truth.

He starts to say, “Be good to Frances as much as you can. Try to keep him with you.”

I am astonished by what he said.

Even though he does not get along very well with Whitney, he should not talk with me about it. Whitney will hate him badly for his request to me.

I ask him, “Why did you say it?”

He answers, “Since I found she had been suffering a lot from her marriage with Frances, I wish they could live separately. Frances does not love her, but makes her in great pain.”

“You dislike Whitney?” I have to ask him the question.

Lawrence laughs and shakes his head, “No. I love her.”

This is big news to me!

As the adopted son of the Jordan’s family, he is neither allowed to love his sister in name; it will certainly make a scandal of his family to the whole society. But now he is so frank to tell me he loves Whitney.

No wonder he is not fond of Silvia Louis at all even she has kept pursuing him. He loves the one he will not get forever.

I have to say, “Frances and you are of the same type of person, both getting crazy!”

Frances does not care about his charming wife, but likes another woman.

Lawrence ignores such gorgeous Silvia after him, just obsessed with his sister.

I curl my lips and continue, “I am sorry I cannot help you.”