"I will disobey your father if I have to." May pulled the napkin from her lap and set it on the table. "Your father would not want to see his family locked away and not come out, like that man on the TV. I do not want to go through that again, not if I can do something to stop it."
She almost did not catch the gesture in her tirade with her son, but when she did, she paused. It did nothing to calm the hysteria rising from the pit of her stomach. Men in Korea held hands all of the time, but this-