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.”

when she found herself waylaid by

town. 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 in town, had inflated his

Ruiz.” Millie addressed him in

they’re superior after a few more years of schooling.

had entered Preagend University, the neighbors had taken a liking

had no problem with highly educated individuals; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so disappointed in Laurel, who hadn’t

had rejected his son, his attitude underwent an immediate

with volume, a spectacle that drew an audience

your intent?” Millie retorted

marrying well-off men, raising kids, and managing households,

scoff escaped Millie’s

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

that Millie had openly branded him