Chapter 99: Meeting Penelope

Ava's POV

I froze.

How could Penelope be alive? How was that possible? I wondered as I gauged his expression.

Fernando looked sincere and honest as usual but I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe what he was saying.

Miguel said his mom died in the fire that the DiAngelos had started. He had grieved and buried her remains too so…this couldn't be real.

She couldn't be alive. If she was alive then whose body did Miguel bury?

It didn't make any sense. Nothing made sense.

Fernando was lying again, that was the only thing I could think of. He had to be. It was the only thing that could really explain this.

Fernando was a liar. A good one at that, considering all the ways he had fooled me in the past. I wouldn't put it beneath him to lie to me about something this sensitive.

I was sure this was just another trick of his, and I'd be damned if I fell for it.

I stepped back, and smirked, “You are a liar. You expect me to believe that?” I arched my brow, glancing over my shoulder before