Return of the Crowned Heiress

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.

"I don't mean anything by it, Licia. just feel heartbroken over what you went through. I hate myself for not

back to her

slave, someone to beat and scold

a small school there,

window and listen, from spring to

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

woman's warm, gentle smile. She was

storybook.

and said, "A child who loves

was all she had saved from weaving baskets, earned little by little. When she handed it to

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

made it to where she

her struggles, without a hint of complaint or resentment, as if recounting. someone else's story. Because she had faced so much Indifference, she didn't

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

matter whether her parents loved her. She needed to

finishing her thoughts, Felicia returned to