“What do you mean?” Elena asked, confused by the seemingly rhetorical question.
“I don’t know. Maybe like falling in love with someone that you would do anything to turn your back against everything just to fight for him?”
“And why do you ask that?”
“Well, you said that Cross is the one who can help me escape from this poverty you treat as a life sentence. But what if I tell you that I do not care about his money and wealthy background? What if I just want to be with him because I love him?” Elizabeth pointed out.
Of course, Elizabeth remembered the conversation between her mother and the mysterious man a while ago. Her question was scripted yet it was meant to manipulate the narcissism her mother has.
If she were literal and asked her mother about the man, Elena would get furious an
