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.”

from the supermarket, Millie was on the cusp of heading home when she found herself waylaid by a malevolent Hans. Millie halted,

within the 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,

addressed him

superior after a few more years of schooling. You reckon the schoolding

Millie had entered Preagend University, the neighbors had

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

that Millie had rejected his son, his

projecting with volume, a spectacle that drew an audience in

your intent?” Millie

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

scoff escaped

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

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

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