Return Of The Crowned Heiress 46

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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.

anything by it, Licia. just feel heartbroken over what you went through. I hate myself for not knowing

memories flashed back

Howell and Tabitha had treated her like a slave, someone to beat and scold at

they took me to live in a rural area. There was a small school there, set up in a converted house. The tuition was one hundred dollars and a piece of

no money, so I would quietly crouch outside the window and listen, from spring to summer and from summer to winter. That's how I learned for

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

still remember the old woman's warm, gentle smile. She was like a

storybook.

had patted her head softly and said, "A child who

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 bills-fifty cents

the town and the city.

had made it to where she

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

life, Felicia yearned for the familial love and affection she had never truly experienced. In the end, she

this life, it didn't matter whether her parents loved her.

finishing her thoughts, Felicia returned to

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