{"id":424,"date":"2026-09-28T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-400\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:56:00","slug":"in-my-desperate-time-400","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-400\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 400<br \/>\nIn My Desperate Time novel Chapter 400<\/p>\n<p>Frances&#8217; car comes. After saying goodbye to Steven, I get in the car.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I enter the car, Frances says leisurely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What? Is there something you can&#8217;t say in front of me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, I know he is notoriously petty.<\/p>\n<p>Helplessly glancing at him, I curl my lips. &#8220;What are you talking about? Steven showed his care because you made a huge noise looking for our child. There&#8217;s nothing that I can&#8217;t say in front of you. He just mentioned it out of concern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re saying this like it is nothing. But someone looked at you like he wanted to swallow you up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frances says discontentedly.<\/p>\n<p>I can smell jealousy in the car.<\/p>\n<p>It is too easy to notice when Frances gets envious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alright, alright. He is married, yet you&#8217;re still being petty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frances doesn&#8217;t say anything else. I think this matter is over just like that.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought that he pushes me into bed the moment we get home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Petty? Who did you call petty?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As he speaks, he takes off my coat.<\/p>\n<p>The broken dress is revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The desire in Frances&#8217; eyes burns harder.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t dare to speak or move at all. I am afraid he will eat me alive when I am not paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>I just come back from Steven&#8217;s wedding. I feel like I&#8217;ve experienced a great battle. I&#8217;m tuckered out.<\/p>\n<p>Frances loses his mood for sex.<\/p>\n<p>He gets up from me and says in a deep voice, &#8220;Do you think I haven&#8217;t asked? As you know, Lawrence has been protecting her like a baby. Today is actually the first time I&#8217;ve seen her since that incident. Before I could ask, she had already left. I asked Lawrence, but he said the child was dead. He&#8217;s on Whitney&#8217;s side, so he definitely won&#8217;t tell us the truth. Instead of being played, we should do our own research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I nod, feeling sad and disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Then we search endlessly for the child. One after another, people come to our door and claim that they know where he is.<\/p>\n<p>However, after some DNA tests, we confirm that none of the candidates is our child.<\/p>\n<p>These people are only here to cheat money out of us by bringing their own children over.<\/p>\n<p>They would rather trade their own kids for money. In front of money, kinship always seems so insignificant.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;d rather use all my resources to find our child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-424","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/424","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=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}