Chapter 107: Sex & Dreams

Ava's POV

Miguel? Short, and not exactly blessed with looks? Was Penelope joking? I couldn't believe my ears.

I glanced at her, and she appeared dead serious but I was sure she was only teasing me. It had to be a joke.

It sounded like one —and obviously, it was a terrible joke so I laughed it off. If anyone knew how handsome Miguel was it had to be her after all she was his mother.

“You tell a really terrible joke, Penelope,” I laughed it off, filling my mouth with more almonds.

“Terrible joke?” She repeated, acting clueless, and honestly, she sounded believable like she meant every word she had said to me.

Her poker face game was solid, and the only reason I wasn't the least convinced was because she was his mother.

She knew what Miguel looked like and knowing that, there was no way she could say he was unattractive but hammering on the fact that he was short and unattractive didn't just make any sense to me.

“Yeah, terrible joke,” I repeated, “You surely cannot mean that about Mi