At this moment, Abbott also realized that he had never proposed to Renee. If anyone were to say that was a proposal, then that was probably what he least wanted to confront.

Seeing Abbott remain silent, Renee laughed and said: "You probably can't believe it either, can you? Even when you proposed to me, you did so in a tone of pity and condescension."

Back then, she had been driven to a dead end by Evie and the mother-daughter duo of the Stanton family. She was in dire need of a marriage to repel them.

And Abbott refused!

Because of this, she had agreed to marry Leandro. But at the...