Chapter 12The old saying that time waits for no one was true. Three years had passed since his wife had died in childbirth. And just this month the nurse he’d hired to help, Meilin Gui, had quit her position because she found a man and was getting married. Even though he knew his mother wished he and Meilin would date, she didn’t press the issue. She even tried to fix him up with the cute guy from the butcher shop. She had finally accepted the fact that he was a grown man capable of making his own decisions.
“Did you hear that your father-in-law is sick?” Hyson asked Aki over the breakfast table.
“No,” Aki answered. “I haven’t seen him in a while.” Aki used to take the twins to visit with his in-laws but neither Kanaye or Bai seemed overly excited to see them. So, he stopped trying. They
