She looked back at the documents.
She turned to the last page and read it to the bottom.
Then she stacked all six pages together, slid them back into the envelope, and set it down with both hands flat on top of it.
“Where is Joon?” she said.
“Still in the other room,” I said.
She stood up.
“Emily—” I started.
“I’m not going to shout,” she said.
“I just need to talk to him.”
She walked out of the room.
I followed her to the doorway.
Joon was standing at the window in the living room, his back to us, still on his phone.
He heard her footsteps and turned around.
He saw her face and ended the call.
“Hey,” he said.
“Is everything—”
“Sit down, Joon,” she said.
He looked past her at me.
Then at his father, who had appeared in the hallway. Parenting
Something moved across his face.
Not guilt, not yet.
Something more calculating than that.
He was measuring the room.
Measuring what we knew.
He sat down.
Emily placed the envelope on the coffee table in front of him.
He looked at it for a long moment.
He didn’t touch it.
“Where did you get that?” he said.
“Your father gave it to my mother,” Emily said. Parenting
“Who, by the way, speaks Korean.”
The color left his face.
“Emily—”
“How much debt?” she said.
“Total.
Right now.
How much?”
He was quiet.
“Joon.
How much?”
“It’s complicated,” he said.
“The numbers—”
“How.
Much.”
He looked at the floor.
“Eighty million won,” he said.
“Roughly.”
Emily didn’t blink.
“And you put my name on a guarantee without telling me.” Baby& Pet Names
“I was going to fix it before it ever became a problem for you.
I swear to you, I never intended—”
“You sat next to me at our kitchen table,” she said.
“You handed me a pen.
You told me to sign.
You watched me sign my name and you said nothing.”
He opened his mouth.
“Don’t,” she said.
