In the study, father and son sat down.
"Dad, what do you want to talk to me about? Is it about Stella?"
Warren Hawthorne pondered for a moment and said, "We’ll put Stella’s matter aside for now. I want to talk to you about your marriage."
Silas Hawthorne was taken aback, "Marriage?"
His father never meddled in his romantic affairs, and now he unexpectedly brought up marriage, which made it hard for Silas to grasp his intentions.
Warren’s sharp gaze fell on Silas, and only after a long pause did he speak, "When you were a child, I arranged a fiancée for you."
Silas was shocked, did he already have a fiancée?
"I hadn’t been able to find her until now. Now that I’ve found her, I hope you’ll honor your promise and marry her."
Silas’ expression was full of uncertainty. He frowned and asked, "Where is she?"
Warren lightly tapped the table and said, "She and Stella are studying together at the medical school."
"Father, I don’t know what promises you made with whom, but I hope to choose my future partner myself. I won’t bring home a woman I don’t know just to satisfy your personal desires."
Warren hadn’t expected Silas to refuse. His face instantly turned dark.
He gritted his teeth and said, "In a family like ours, marriage is not something you can decide.
Do you also want to be like Stella, find someone who doesn’t match your status, who can’t be the matriarch of the Hawthorne family?
Besides, you haven’t even met her. How do you know you won’t like her? What if you fall in love with her at first sight?"
Although Warren wasn’t familiar with Faye Sterling, she was Jeanette Jennings’ daughter.
Jeanette was outstanding, so her daughter wouldn’t be far off either.
Silas found it absurd.
Such a ridiculous thing as love at first sight wouldn’t happen to him.
Seeing Silas’s face full of resistance.
Warren squinted his eyes and asked, "Is there a woman you fancy?"
Silas shook his head, "No, but I’m not sure if in the future I might meet someone who moves me, someone I want to spend my life with. I must be responsible for my future wife."
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He gritted his teeth and asked, "You...can’t you just marry her?"
"Father," Silas said helplessly, guessing, "Did you arrange this with the Jennings Family?"
Warren didn’t speak, which was a tacit confirmation.
Silas said, "Even if I marry her, it won’t fill the regret in your heart, so you should give up this idea."
After speaking, Silas stood up and walked out.
"Silas Hawthorne, stop right there!"
Hearing Warren’s call, Silas didn’t pause, leaving without looking back.
Warren slammed the table heavily, his expression extremely grim.
But he only had this one son; besides him, no one else could marry Faye Sterling.
Thinking of Jeanette Jennings, Warren felt a dull pain in his chest, making it hard to breathe.
That was the regret of his life.
Years ago, The Hawthorne Family and the Jennings Family arranged a family marriage, making Jeanette Jennings his fiancée.
He liked Jeanette Jennings very much, feeling lucky that he could take this woman, whom all men in Aethelgard saw as a pure and untouchable beauty, to be his future wife.
But one day, Jeanette suddenly came to him to break off the engagement, which he naturally refused.
Jeanette then admitted that she was already pregnant.
They had never had any intimate contact, so the child wasn’t his!