Burning Passion: Love Never Die

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.”

cusp of heading home when she found herself waylaid by a malevolent Hans. Millie halted, her gaze harboring a

exuding an air of arrogance as he strolled the streets. Their family’s involvement in the medicine trade,

addressed him

years of schooling. You reckon the schoolding guarantees marrying a wealthy man and leading a life of

the neighbors had taken

problem with highly educated individuals; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so disappointed in Laurel,

had rejected his

projecting with volume, a spectacle that

intent?” Millie retorted

you this straight. No matter how many years you spend in school, women end up marrying well-off men, raising kids, and managing households,

scoff escaped Millie’s

you pursued higher education, your perspective might be less narrow- minded, Women aren’t born solely to wed

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