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.”

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

endure any setbacks, his gait exuding an air of arrogance as he strolled the streets. Their family’s involvement

Ruiz.” Millie addressed him

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

entered Preagend University, the

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

had rejected his son, his attitude underwent

projecting with volume, a spectacle

your intent?” Millie retorted

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

escaped Millie’s

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

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

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