Chapter 107. Epilogue: Evran and Lenore pt. 4

Lenore stared into the distance in front of her, not knowing what was on her mind right now. 

“If it’s hard for you to tell me, then you don’t have to,” I said in the softest tone possible. 

I didn’t want to burden Lenore. After all, her story was hers. I was no one to force her to tell it and make her uncomfortable. 

“Uh, I... I’ll tell you,” Lenore said. “The gist of it, at least.” 

I nodded, feeling sure that she would see my head move even though she wasn’t looking at me. 

“After graduating from high school, I received a scholarship to Yale, but my parents went bankrupt and my grandfather was seriously ill, so my mother had to borrow money from a loan shark to pay for the hospital bills,” Lenore said. “I forgot about Yale and worked in a textile factory, but that didn’t l