Chapter 29

When she received the boy, she understood that he was her man. Her owner. Her husband by contract. She had accepted it before and the result was the happiest one, and Mrs. Keika had instructed her. The former translator in Indochina, she was now translating other things, and for her, a child woman, it felt like a wedding and it was. He was tender and gentle with her. He was kind and she was just the son of the almighty lord....