Substitutee Marriage: Fallingg For My Ugly Wifee

Chapter: 82

“Millie,” he said warmly.

“T have something to ask you. Is the relationship between Marcus and Leon quite strained?” Millie inquired.

Bruce slipped one hand into his pocket, momentarily taken aback by the question.

His gaze shifted towards Leon, who was engaged in entertaining others.

“Regarding the person you mentioned, he not only has a strained relationship with Marcus but also with me. In fact, it would be an understatement to describe our association as merely bad. It is akin to water and fire, inherently incompatible,”

Bruce explained.

did he refer to Leon as

you three cousins by

a nuisance. What you don’t know is that he went missing at the age of three and retuned to the Thomas family when he was sixteen. Unfortunately, his return brought back all the negative influences he had picked up during his time away. Both my brother and I had fiery temperaments, but his was even

was palpable, yet upon witnessing Millie’s insatiable thirst for knowledge, he

of indebtedness, believed he had endured unimaginable hardships and implored us to foster camaraderie with him. Initially, we followed her wishes, striving to

expressed her confusion. “He went missing? How

affection. As time went on, his father continued his affairs, and his mother gradually grew indifferent towards him. When he was

at such a young age. Her heart ached at the thought of the countless stories of lost children she had encountered, each more heartbreaking than the

Yet, it took thirteen years to locate him in a distant

disposal of the Thomas family, the lengthy duration of the search seemed rather

his head, his expression clouded with contemplation, before continuing