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 b***h 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 ja
