Chapter 108: Believe Me

Riccardo POV:

My body just turned stiff with no words able to come out of my mouth. Did I really had misjudged Cassie? Verona saw me being pensive and she just excused herself, doing some chores inside the kitchen.

Cassie did cause a lot of trouble before. So when Carina told me about the pool incident, I didn't even hesitate to think that she might be lying. I immediately judged Cassie as the problematic one. Now Verona was telling me a different story and siding with Cassie. It just made me feel so awful inside that I had pushed Cassie aside and provided comfort to Carina instead. That kind of attention should only be exclusive to Cassie.

My heart just didn't feel good as if there was this malaise feeling suddenly lurking in me. A suspicion just abruptly appeared inside my head. I had a hunch that Carina was secretly trying to break me off with Cassie. Yet I couldn't help but still pitied her because she was a woman who lost her entire family to the De Luca. She was all alone now an