They Threw Out the Maid's Daughter, Now She Sits at Their Table novel · Chapter 7 of 32
Chapter 7: Mother's Photograph
Ye-rin asked him in the car, and he did not answer.
"She is angry that I won't use her title," said Seo-jun, with his eyes on the road. "I was a ward, not a son. I never claimed to be one."
It was a perfectly good answer.
She turned her face to the window and did not believe a word.
He dropped her at the foot of the Mapo stairs at six, because she had said she wanted to see her mother.
The rooftop apartment was two small rooms and a kitchen on a flat of tar and chipped paint, with a line for drying laundry running across the concrete.
Her mother was not home.
She would be at the mansion, cooking for the family that had just welcomed her back.
Ye-rin let herself in and stood in the small room that had been hers for twenty years of visits.
She was here for her exam cards, which she had left in a drawer.
The drawer was stuck.
She pulled hard, and it came out entirely and spilled onto the floor with a rattle of thread spools, loose buttons and a biscuit tin.
The tin had come open.
She knelt to put things back, and her hand closed on a photograph.
It was small, with a white border gone yellow.
A narrow steel kitchen, brightly lit, with a row of copper pots over a range.
Her mother stood in front of them, much younger, with her hair tied up under a cap and a white jacket buttoned to the neck.
She was holding an infant against her shoulder in a blue blanket.
The baby's face was turned toward the camera, round and very pale, with a faint blue shadow around the mouth.
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