Love's Bitter Edge (Eva and Leonard)

Chapter 231

Chapter 231 I Don't Owe You

Amelia led me to a bench in the small garden outside the hospital. She sat down first and then patted the spot next to her. "Sit down."

I settled as far on the edge of the bench as possible, avoiding being too close to her. She turned to look at me, a strange expression on her face.

"You are annoying, Eva. Even in that wig, you still manage to look good."

Her random remark caught me off guard, leaving me unsure of how to respond. But it seemed like she didn't need me to say anything. She tilted her head back, gazing up at the sk

"The day we moved into college was just like this-cloudy but nice, comfortable weather," she began, her voice soft with nostalgia.

"Eva, I was the first person in the whole school to meet Leonard. The very first. No one else

met him before me."

Her voice held a touch of joy, and her eyes sparkled at the memory. I had always known Amelia kept to herself during college, and I didn't know much about her past.

and she'd taken out student loans and worked hard for scholarships. She signed up for work-study on the very first

campus. Leonard probably didn't even remember helping a girl with too many bags at the station that day, but

tone darkening. "Both

at the cafeteria and tutoring to

when life

was right about one thing:

him financially, just like how my Dad had done for Amelia,

dorm as me, so naturally, I pulled

to her, my dad's help had never been kind. It was an

costing more than my entire monthly budget. Do you even know what it was like? My

day, ordered takeout that cost insane amounts, then said you don't want it and

Dont Owe

then, you had your dad swoop in, funding Leonard to take him away from me.

see me lose it, see me abandoned by everyone. But too bad for you-I studied hard and managed to get sponsors. I didn't have to repay

looked at her twisted expression, I could only shake my

who funded your scholarship? That 'jewelry design studio' you think backed you?

was why I didn't have