Although Ivan Gray said it casually, Summer Thorne was still taken aback for a moment.
Fortunately, she quickly recovered and apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't know…"
"It's fine, it's fine." Ivan Gray waved his hands dismissively. "Miss Thorne, please don't feel sorry. I grew up in an orphanage in Valois, so that question doesn't bother me at all. I accepted and got used to it a long time ago, so it's nothing."
The guilt in Summer Thorne's heart hadn't yet faded when a new question arose.
Before she broke up with Timothy York, she had asked Ivan Gray how long he'd been at his side. He'd told her it had been over a decade.
That meant he had been with Timothy York since he was a teenager.
At the time, she had simply assumed that Ivan Gray and Timothy York must have met when they were young, which was why they had been together for so many years.
But now, Ivan Gray was telling her he grew up in an orphanage in Valois.
