Return of the Crowned Heiress

Return Of The Crowned Heiress 46

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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.

anything by it, Licia. just feel heartbroken over what you

memories flashed back to

someone to beat and scold at will. They would never have allowed

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

window and listen, from spring to summer

eight, a kind old woman from the village gave me one hundred dollars and a piece of smoked ham to pay

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

storybook.

"A child who

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

competition awards in both the town and the city. "After that. Howell and Tabitha realized they had another way to

it to where she was today. Myra's shoulders trembled, while Dexter's

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

familial love and affection she had never truly experienced. In the end, she lost herself, humbly pleading for affection and

her parents loved her. She needed to

finishing her thoughts, Felicia