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.”

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

endure any setbacks, his gait exuding an air of arrogance as he strolled

addressed him in a

Some people start thinking they’re superior after a few more years of schooling. You reckon the schoolding guarantees

had entered Preagend University, the neighbors had taken a

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

had rejected his son,

projecting with volume, a spectacle that drew an audience

your intent?”

raising kids, and managing households,

scoff escaped Millie’s

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

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