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.”

the supermarket, Millie was on the cusp of heading home when she found herself waylaid by a

He 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 more earnings than any other household

Millie addressed him in a measured

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

the neighbors had taken a liking

he wouldn’t

Millie had rejected his son,

with volume, a spectacle that drew an

your intent?” Millie

many years you spend in school, women end up marrying well-off men, raising kids, and managing households, That’s a woman’s role, What’s the point of a few extra school years like

escaped Millie’s

higher education, your perspective might be less narrow- minded, Women aren’t born solely to wed men, and such antiquated beliefs have been discarded long

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