Return of the Crowned Heiress

Return Of The Crowned Heiress 46

Chapter

46

Felicia said, "I can take care of myself. After all, I've managed to get inrough all these years, haven't I?"

Felicia smiled faintly, like a figure shrouded in mist. Though she stood right in front of them, she seemed unreachable.

Myra and Dexter understood her meaning clearly. Felicia didn't want to get close to them and certainly didn't see them as family.

Myra didn't dare to push further, afraid of straining their relationship even more. She reluctantly said, Well, at least you can come home on the weekends, right?"

"Sure." That was Felicia's final compromise.

It was getting late, and as Felicia prepared to return to her room, Myra hesitated and asked, "Licia, how did you manage to attend school all these years? How did you pay for the tuition?" The conversation circled back to where it had started.

it, Licia. just feel heartbroken over what you went

flashed back to her

a slave, someone to beat and scold at

school there, set up in a converted house. The tuition was one hundred dollars and a piece of

had no money, so I would quietly crouch outside the window and listen, from spring to summer and from summer to winter.

I was eight, a kind old woman from the village gave me one hundred dollars

gentle smile. She

storybook.

softly and said, "A child who loves to learn

didn't take the money. That hundred dollars was all she had saved from weaving baskets, earned little by little. When she handed it to me, it was in small

I earned the top grades each semester and won various competition awards in both the town and the city. "After that.

where she was today. Myra's

of complaint or resentment, as if recounting. someone else's story. Because she had faced so much Indifference, she didn't want her

experienced. In

loved

Felicia returned to her