It wasn't until he found the letter in his father's old files that the pieces clicked.
*"Please, Mr. Kang,"* Amanda's mother had written. *"Don't make her leave him. She loves your son. We may not have money, but we have dignity. She only agreed to break his heart because you threatened to pull her scholarship."*
Kim's hands shook.
His parents had forced her. They had taken the one good thing in his life and crushed it, and Amanda had borne the weight alone.
Then came the medical reports—hidden in her employee file, overlooked until now. Stage four cancer. Terminal.