Dan mimicked her posture, because two could play this game. What he didn't indulge in was her outrage. "If Jae-mi wants to live here, she's welcome to do so. I won't stop her but I won't pressure her either. I'm ten years older than she is and I'm a wheelchair. She's a young woman with her whole life ahead of her. I don't want either of us to be trapped by this marriage." As her mother, he hoped she'd understand that. And hoped she'd leave it at that because the more she pressed the more tempted he was to tell the truth.