Elowen had lost her mind. I ended the call. The city lights outside the window blurred into soft halos beneath the heavy, ink-black night. The lawyer told me that Elowen had been forcibly taken from the hospital by her mother. The massive debt she owed, along with compensation for the medical malpractice, had crushed her already impoverished family. Bound by her wrist with a thick hemp rope, Elowen was dragged back to the small hometown she had once been too ashamed to mention by Mrs. Jensen. Word had it that after returning to the town, she spent all day sitting at the village entrance, grinning foolishly at anyone who passed by and mumbling incoherently, "I'm the instructor's wife... I'm going to live in a mansion… Where's my Hermès?"Elowen became the laughingstock of the entire town. …A month later, the court finally delivered its judgment on Vincent's case. I didn't attend in person. It was Dad's lawyer who sent me the video of the court proceedings. In the video, he
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