In My Desperate Time novel Chapter 274

Without a thought, I rush towards the child.

The worker at the café sees that I am running inwards and holds onto me, “Miss, what are you doing? The exit is the other side.”

“Release me, there is a child over there!” I say anxiously.

When I see that the child is crying all alone, my heart hurts like it is being cut by a knife.

I really don’t understand how Whitney can be so ruthless to abandon her child and run. Isn’t a mother’s love suppose to be selfless? Why don’t I see this in Whitney?

The worker hesitates and looks at me and then at the crying child but eventually runs outside. In the face of life and death, the human instinct is far too fragile.

I am also scared of death but I cannot possibly leave the child inside.

Earthquakes are rare in Virginia and I do not know the intensity of this earthquake. But no matter what, I must save this child. Being a mother who lost a child, I must not let anything happen to this child!

I take a deep breath and run in that direction. Just as I reach the pram, I notice the ceiling lamps crashing down. The child is in danger! I dash over to the pram and lean over the pram while the lamp crashes onto my shoulders.

Ouch! It hurt so much that I can’t raise my shoulders. It’s too dangerous here and we must leave immediately. I endure the pain in my shoulders and carry the child into my arms and sprint out of there.

It is fortunate that the earthquake isn’t that severe and there isn’t any further danger. The tremors stop as soon as I run outside.

Whitney cowers in Lawrence’s embrace and has not recovered from the shock. Suddenly she realizes that something is amiss and pushes Lawrence away and says angrily to him, “Why didn’t you carry the child out?”