Chapter 65 These Two

PENELOPE'S POV

So it was indeed true... What Giovanni had said about me not being Angus's biological daughter was true. Was that why he had treated me so terribly, like a slave?

I couldn't breathe anymore. My chest was tightening so painfully that I wasn't sure I would leave here without losing consciousness. It was even worse than the pain I felt when Dad scarred me. My body began to tremble.

I didn't know whether to feel relieved that these weren't my biological parents or to feel sad that I had been an orphan, picked up from who knows where.

"You shouldn't have picked up that stupid bitch from the forest! You should have let her cry to her death," Avery sobbed, sending a chill down my spine with her cruelty.

Dad didn't bother to comfort her. His eyes were dark with rage, and his jaw ticked.

So the reason I had been through hell and back was that I was an orphan child found in the forest?

So the reason I had been scarred, traumatized, neglected, and beaten into unconsciousness for y