Chapter 8: Giovanni Pov

For the first time in my life, I was frozen in place, my mind racing.

I tasted metallic and then swallowed it. My dangerous glare moved from Penelope to Leon who had punched me.

I couldn't even believe what I had just heard, my mouth slightly hanging open in shock. My eyes moved back to Penelope. My jaw clenched and my eyes narrowed.

I tried to form words, but nothing came out. My thoughts were jumbled, my brain trying to process what had just happened.

I felt like I was in a dream, unable to speak or move. All I could do was stare at Penelope. Her nerve of rejecting me.

I wanted to lash at her. I wanted to ask her who the fuck she was to reject me.

For the first time in my life, I felt worthless, that someone had rejected me. Not just someone but a fragile female, who had deceived me.

I had rejected so many women in the past, played with many, they ended up kissing the ground I walked on, rejected so many marriage proposals and yet this fragile lady had in turn reject