REDEEMED
“O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.” Psalm 130:7-8
“Sister!” Kwan greeted. I didn’t have to feign my relief as he hugged me. The officer spoke with my husband in Mandarin and handed him a large sum of money, all the while continuing to bow obsequiously toward us both.
Once we were alone in the car driving toward Sanhe I turned to my husband. “I thought you were dead!”
“Dead?” Kwan’s eyes opened wide before narrowing in anger. “So he told you I was dead? That fool of a traitor!”
“Mr. Kim?”
“Who else? The same man who sold you for eight hundred yuan while I was out risking my life to save his daughter.”
“So you weren’t shot?”
“No.”
“Arrested?”
Kwan snor
