{"id":241,"date":"2026-09-28T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-217\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:55:00","slug":"in-my-desperate-time-217","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-217\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 217"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 217<br \/>\nIn My Desperate Time novel Chapter 217<\/p>\n<p>I want to catch his attention?<\/p>\n<p>Could this man say something more shameless?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrances, let me just get straight with you! I want to leave you. I did this so that you could hate me. I didn\u2019t mean anything else!\u201d Things have reached this point and I already have no other choices.<\/p>\n<p>Frances sniffs and sits next to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you might be disappointed. I haven\u2019t planned to let you go, so, you gotta work harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he says, he lies on my bed boldly, takes off his shoes, closes his eyes and completely ignores me.<\/p>\n<p>I fluster and say hurriedly, \u201cAre you actually sleeping at my place?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What I want to do is to make him hate me, but not to keep him sleeping in here. With his beast-like characteristics, it is very likely that he would do something bad to me. I still have a baby in my belly. It was already a luck that nothing terrible happened yesterday, but I couldn\u2019t allow him do that to me again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d The man opens his eyes lazily and looks at me, \u201cDo you want me to sleep in my bed after what you have done?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am really hurting myself by my own doing. I wish to get myself killed with my own hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t there some other guest rooms? Why don\u2019t you go there?\u201d I continue to persuade Frances with my best efforts.<\/p>\n<p>An advantage of a villa like this is its size. The villa includes at least ten rooms. How could he not find a room to sleep?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am the host. How could I sleep in the guest room?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frances\u2019 words really choke me.<\/p>\n<p>I am too lazy to argue with him. I directly go to sleep in the guest room.<\/p>\n<p>What I am thinking now is how to leave Frances as fast as I can, but my heart hurts involuntarily when I think about leaving.<\/p>\n<p>This feeling is really self-contradictory.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing me leave, Frances sits up from the bed. He stares at me all the way with his dark and deep eyes as I open the door. I become so nervous that I almost forget how to walk.<\/p>\n<p>For three days, I have already done everything I could, but Frances still ignores me. I really grow desperate.<\/p>\n<p>Since I don\u2019t know what methods Whitney would use to go against me, I decide to run away.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the night, I call Steven.<\/p>\n<p>His voice sounded sleepy and he seems to be sleeping, but when he hears me ask him for help, he becomes sober immediately. He agrees to schedule things for me.<\/p>\n<p>In order not to arouse his suspicion, I don\u2019t even pack up anything. I plan to go directly to the airport this afternoon after work. I have my ID card with me anyway. I could go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>It is just that he will definitely doubts if I refuse now.<\/p>\n<p>I smile and nod at him, saying gently, \u201cSure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, I have been feeling uneasy, worrying that something might go wrong and I can\u2019t leave all of a sudden.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, nothing happens until the end of the work hour. It seems that Whitney is not going to deal with me yet.<\/p>\n<p>I sigh in relief, packing up my stuffs and is about to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the office breaks into hot debates.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, everyone starts to look at me.<\/p>\n<p>My instinct tells me something must have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Mindy also calls my phone. She says to me urgently, \u201cJane, look at the headline of the news!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-241","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}