With her back turned to Hans, Laurel indulged in an eye roll. Naturally, the Thomas family held greater wealth than ours,

The Ruiz family’s assets amounted to nothing in their presence.

“Why the silence?” Hans inquired with an anxious edge.

“They can’t measure up to us. The man she married is financially challenged,” Laurel fibbed, leaving guilt in her wake as she disappeared into her room. She would never admit that Millie had chosen a well-off partner.

However, her untruth bore unexpected gravity in Hans’ perception.

“Millie, I presumed you’d wed someone influential, thus cast disdain on my son, Yet, it seems you’ve simply married a penniless fellow. A lesson is due.”

was on the cusp of heading home when she found herself waylaid by a malevolent Hans. Millie halted,

a reputation as a notorious troublemaker within the town. He staunchly refused to endure any setbacks, his gait exuding an air of arrogance as he

Millie addressed him in

Some people start thinking they’re superior after a few more years of schooling. You reckon the schoolding guarantees marrying a wealthy man and leading a life of

the neighbors had taken

educated individuals; otherwise, he wouldn’t

now that Millie had rejected his son, his attitude underwent an

his voice projecting with volume, a spectacle that drew an

intent?”

men, raising kids, and managing households, That’s a

scoff escaped Millie’s

perspective might be less narrow- minded, Women aren’t born solely to wed men,

off guard, struggling to fathom that Millie had openly branded him as pedantic

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