{"id":544,"date":"2026-09-28T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-520\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:36:00","slug":"in-my-desperate-time-520","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-520\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 520"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 520<br \/>\nIn My Desperate Time novel Chapter 520<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; He gets a bit impatient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hilda doesn&#8217;t need your protection at all! She has already taken over the gang. Now she is in charge. I only shot you because I really believed that she had planted a miniature bomb in Earl&#8217;s brain. She threatened me. It was also possible that old Mr. Louis didn\u2019t die a normal death, but because of her. Also, Mindy told me that Terence might have been killed by Hilda. You can&#8217;t be with her. She&#8217;s really dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frances looks at me, his brows furrowing.<\/p>\n<p>No, he doesn\u2019t seem to be looking at me. He is looking behind me.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything behind me? Isn&#8217;t it just a glass wall?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enough, stop talking,&#8221; Frances says in a deep voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t you believe me? What I said is true. Hilda&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly.<\/p>\n<p>His hand lands heavily on my face.<\/p>\n<p>His strength is so great that I can\u2019t keep standing and just fall to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>My palm press down on a small stone and those edges pierce deeply into my palm.<\/p>\n<p>My hands hurt.<\/p>\n<p>My face hurts.<\/p>\n<p>My heart hurts even more.<\/p>\n<p>Did he really just hit me?<\/p>\n<p>I look at him in disbelief, but he says coldly, &#8220;Do you think I&#8217;ll believe you? Do you think I&#8217;ll be with you if you tell me this? Don&#8217;t be naive! When I see you, I\u2019ll think of the shot, and I feel sick! From now on, don&#8217;t you ever appear in front of me again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Every single word of him is like a knife, deeply piercing into my heart with breathtaking coldness.<\/p>\n<p>The blood in my heart oozes out from the corner of my mouth and falls to the ground, growing out blooms of despair.<\/p>\n<p>How deeply does he love Hilda that he didn\u2019t believe what I said and hit me so heavily?<\/p>\n<p>It feels so painful.<\/p>\n<p>My heart aches. It\u2019s killing me.<\/p>\n<p>His ruthlessness has made me feel incredibly miserable over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will be numb after a long time of pain, but I never imagine that every time it hurts even more.<\/p>\n<p>The warmth and sweetness of the past are still vivid in my mind. But now, he won\u2019t treat anyone like that but Hilda.<\/p>\n<p>I regret it. I regret believing in Hilda&#8217;s words back then. Now, I&#8217;m like a stranger to Frances. I\u2019m responsible for having a time bomb by his side.<\/p>\n<p>What can I do? What should I do?<\/p>\n<p>I return home in despair, unable to calm my heart down.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t sleep at night, so I get up and call Mindy.<\/p>\n<p>Mindy is probably in the middle of a love scene. When she answers the phone, she pants for breath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so late. Why are you calling?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ahem.&#8221; I cough awkwardly and ask her, &#8220;Am I disturbing you and David?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never mind. Just ignore him.&#8221; Mindy says like she doesn\u2019t care at all.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as she finishes speaking, a wave of coquettish protest bursts out.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that I have disturbed the pair of lovebirds, I have no choice but to continue saying to Mindy, \u201cCan you have David arrange some people to monitor Hilda\u2019s movements and protect Frances and Earl in the dark? I am so worried.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-544","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/544","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=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}