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.”

when she found herself waylaid

of arrogance as he strolled the streets. Their family’s involvement in the medicine trade, yielding more earnings than any other household in town,

Ruiz.” Millie addressed him

they’re superior after a few more years of schooling. You reckon the schoolding guarantees marrying a wealthy man and leading a life of

entered Preagend University, the neighbors had

individuals; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so

that Millie had rejected his son, his attitude

head, his voice projecting with volume, a spectacle that drew an audience in the

your intent?”

raising kids, and managing households, That’s a woman’s role, What’s

escaped

Women aren’t born solely to wed men, and such antiquated beliefs have been

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