They Threw Out the Maid's Daughter, Now She Sits at Their Table novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: The Surgery
The date was at the top of the second line.
November 21, 2002.
Ye-rin read it three times in the hall with the fax in her hand.
Then she went into the kitchen, took the pot of cold barley tea from the counter and set the sheet on the steel beside it.
She did the sum.
Seven days.
It did not need a pen.
She heard Seo-jun come down the hall in his bare feet.
"What is it?"
"You said no more hiding," said Ye-rin.
She pushed the fax across the counter.
He read it once.
She watched the color go slowly out from under his skin, and then she watched him hold himself still.
"A week after," he said.
"My mother took a sick baby out of a burning hotel on the fourteenth of November. On the twenty-first someone paid cash for a surgeon trained abroad." Her voice sounded like someone else's. "We didn't have cash. My father was dead. She was a cook on a wage."
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