Unyielding Defiance

Aria gave a faint, confident smile. "I love Alar, not his parents. Alar and I are the ones who will be together for life. We're what matters. Everything else is just noise."

With that, Aria flashed Loretta a defiant smile, making sure she saw just how unbothered she was.

At the end of the day, Loretta just kept going in circles with the same arguments.

Aria was only holding back because Loretta wa