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.”

home when she found herself waylaid by a malevolent Hans. Millie

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,

him in a measured

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

University, the neighbors

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

Millie had rejected his son, his attitude underwent an

head, his voice projecting with volume, a spectacle that

your intent?” Millie retorted

me 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 a woman’s role, What’s the point of a few extra school years like yours?

escaped Millie’s

less narrow- minded, Women aren’t born solely to wed men,

struggling to fathom that Millie had openly