"Nothing!" She pulled her hand out of his and then said, "I don't want to go to Falling City, nor do I want to meet your family.
"Are you bothered by my family?" Dorian Howards asked, "Back then, I didn't know what happened between you and my mother, but I hope the past is in the past. What I want is our future. Alice, I will tell my family that I will only marry you in this life, and I won't consider anyone else. If they embarrass you, it's as if they're embarrassing me. My family isn't that inflexible, and besides, the Howards Family now doesn't need to sacrifice my marriage for any gain."
He said so much, in hopes of untangling the knot in her heart. If she truly cared about his family, thinking they would object, then he was willing to resolve this knot for her. No matter the reason she accepted that five million back then, he could overlook it and not overthink, just hoping she would be willing to be with him.
