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?