CHAPTER 12
Sun curled up on the mattress and bit her lip to keep from crying out loud. The bitter drink Mr. Lee had given her made her legs heavy. Her head was spinning. How could this have happened to her? How could she have let everyone deceive her? It had only been two days since she crossed the border with Min-Ho. Two days waiting in a filthy hotel room, eating no better than she had at her parents’ home. Two days spent locked up because her fat and blotchy new boss told her it wasn’t safe to venture out until he got her the appropriate identification papers. She had been so eager to start earning money to help her family back home. Then tonight Mr. Lee sauntered in, heaving around his enormous swell of a belly, and told her everything was in order. She was now a working woman.
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