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, 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

addressed him

they’re superior after a few more years of schooling. You reckon the schoolding guarantees marrying a

the neighbors had taken a liking to

educated individuals; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so

his son,

projecting with volume, a spectacle

intent?”

raising kids,

scoff escaped Millie’s

perspective might be less narrow- minded, Women aren’t born solely to wed men, and such antiquated beliefs

to fathom that Millie had openly branded him as pedantic before

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