"Do you really need to be so clear-cut with me?" Windsor Myres asked him with a look of confusion, her expression also showing some displeasure.
Did Camden River mean that she would spend her own money and he wouldn't care?
She had given up such a privileged lifestyle at home to willingly live with him in a three-bedroom apartment, yet he was so cold and indifferent, with no intention, verbally or implicitly, of spending a penny on her?
Camden River understood she might have misunderstood again, and said solemnly, "It's not that I want to keep things separate with you, nor do I mean for us to live financially equal lives. But I don't want my future wife to be like a parasitic leech or a spineless shrimp, having no skills other than relying on others."
A parasitic leech? A spineless shrimp? Having no skills?
