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.”

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

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

addressed him in a measured

a few more years of schooling. You reckon

entered Preagend University, the neighbors had taken a liking to

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

his son, his attitude underwent an immediate

head, his voice projecting with volume, a spectacle that drew

intent?”

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

scoff escaped

aren’t born solely to wed men, and such antiquated

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

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