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.”

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

staunchly refused to endure any setbacks, his gait exuding an air of arrogance as he strolled the streets. Their family’s involvement in the medicine trade, yielding

Ruiz.” Millie addressed him in a measured

schooling. You reckon the schoolding guarantees

had entered Preagend University, the neighbors had taken a liking

he wouldn’t have been so disappointed in Laurel, who

that Millie had rejected his son, his attitude underwent

his voice projecting with volume, a spectacle that drew an audience

intent?” Millie retorted

how many years you spend in school, women end up marrying well-off men, raising kids,

scoff escaped

your perspective might be less narrow- minded, Women aren’t born solely

off guard, struggling to fathom that Millie had openly branded

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