Mia responded bluntly, "Whether it's a deal or not, that's for the police to determine. Coming to me won't change anything.”

"Mia, stop skirting around the issue. If you hadn't dispatched your bodyguards and lawyers, do you think Harper would have dared to involve the police and threaten Chuck with a lawsuit?

“You'd better withdraw your personnel now, or don't blame me for being impolite!"

Mia chuckled mockingly. “Well then, I'm curious to see how you plan to be impolite’ with me."

Lately, the Bowens had been pushing boundaries, even speaking disrespectfully to Mia!

It seemed they had completely lost their minds!

Lewis softened his tone as he stepped forward, fixing his gaze on Mia. "It's been quite some time. Are you still upset? Is that why you're intentionally causing these issues to catch my attention?"

Mia's expression twisted in a mix of shock and disbelief upon hearing Lewis’ accusations. "Who gave you the audacity to say such things?" How could she possibly be angry with Lewis and resort to such lengths just to get his attention? He wasn't foolish, after all!

need for pretense. Since our families proposed our marriage alliance, I've had no involvement with that woman from the bar. She was the one

let me get this straight. You vanished from Nord City out of nowhere, spent ages gallivanting around Xanier Island and Bern City, and then returned with a penniless bodyguard in tow, all just to spread these

my attention, trying to provoke me? Honestly, I've seen through that tactic

found herself momentarily caught off guard,

her that the Bowen family held rather

else could they willingly become involved with such an eccentric household? Prior to Mia's journey to Xanier Island, the Bowens

off the Bowen family's proposal as mere

the Bowens, Mia's subsequent travels to Xanier Island and Bern City held a different

little interest in the Bowen family's marriage proposal or Lewis’ escapades in the bar. She never anticipated

before remarking, “Today, I've truly encountered the breadth

his brow, Lewis inquired, "Mia, what exactly

good look at yourself—your appearance is so astonishingly unattractive that

to test me or if I'm simply too blind to see any appeal

genuinely curious—where did you get such audacity? Did you not bother

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