SURROGATE
“Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers.” Isaiah 49:23
“And so you must return to Sanhe?” Mrs. Cho crossed her arms against her chest and gazed at me over her spectacles.
“This man has saved hundreds of believers.” I recited the argument I rehearsed so often over the past two days.
Mrs. Cho stared at Ae-Cha who had fallen asleep just a moment earlier in my arms, a pacifier dangling precariously from her open mouth.
“If you were returning to Jilin Province to find your husband, I would perhaps understand.” Mrs. Cho had been separated from her husband decades earlier during the Peninsula War. She gazed at a photograph of a young man on the bookshelf behind us. “But for a man you hardly know? To put yourself in such danger …”
I couldn’t explai
