{"id":346,"date":"2026-09-28T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-322\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:30:00","slug":"in-my-desperate-time-322","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-322\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 322"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 322<br \/>\nIn My Desperate Time novel Chapter 322<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you think?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frances doesn&#8217;t answer, he asks a question in return.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney seems to be very disturbed, her brows are knitted, and she suddenly looks at me.<\/p>\n<p>Then she looks at Lawrence, and looks as if she doesn&#8217;t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence walks to her, takes her hand, and says to her, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid, I am here, no matter what happens, I will not allow anything to happen to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frances looks at them with an empty expression, he doesn&#8217;t show any reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe, he just doesn&#8217;t have any feelings for Whitney anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I really don\u2019t know, what he actually cares about in this world.<\/p>\n<p>Frances looks at Whitney with stone cold eyes, and says in a deep voice, &#8220;I will not tell anyone that Earl is your child, but if you ever do anything to Jane again, I will not let it go easily!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know that the child&#8230;&#8221; Whitney pauses, but doesn&#8217;t continue.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it is just my imagination, but I suddenly see her exhale, and mumble to herself, &#8220;At least, he doesn&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, she looks at me with a meaningful look.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jane, do you think you will be happy marrying Frances? You will not, you will suffer your whole life. Hahahaha, in the end, I won. Since you already know that Earl is my child, I will fight to get his custody back!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whitney is madly laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Frances&#8217; brows are knitted, he looks like he is suppressing his own emotions.<\/p>\n<p>But I know, Whitney is right, being with Frances, I will suffer forever. Even I don&#8217;t know when this will have en end.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I look at him, I remember my baby&#8217;s death. I will never forgive him for that.<\/p>\n<p>But, will Whitney really get the custody of her child back? I thought she doesn&#8217;t like the child? Why does she want to do that?<\/p>\n<p>I suddenly start to worry for the child.<\/p>\n<p>To make it more visible for him, I keep the document on my screen.<\/p>\n<p>After work, I can see that Frances looks very gloomy.<\/p>\n<p>I think, he must have definitely seen it, but he cannot yell at me, so he has no choice but to swallow his anger.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing him so beaten, makes me feel really good.<\/p>\n<p>I am so bloated, that I cannot hold back my laughter when sitting in the back of the car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you laughing about so happily?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frances suddenly asks me, his gloomy expression is the exact contrary compared to my happy face.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hold back my smile, and answer with a cold voice, then I turn to look out the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-346","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/346","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=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}