CHAPTER 30
THE GENTLE REBUKE KENNEDY expected from Carl never came. He sat silent for a moment, watching Vivian before he finally took one of her hands from across the desk. “I’m so sorry for what your family’s going through.”
Vivian was dabbing her face with a tissue when Woong’s screeching voice sounded at the door. “I’m hungry.”
Kennedy glanced at Carl and then forced herself to her feet. She could watch Woong for a few minutes so Carl and Vivian could have a little privacy. She shut the office door behind her.
“What’s your mom doing?” she asked Woong in Korean.
“Talking on the phone. That’s all she’s been doing the whole time we’ve been waiting.”
“I thought you were asleep.”
Woong kicked at the church carpet with his shoe. “Sometimes I just pretend so she leaves me alone. I didn
