CASSANDRA'S POV~
I felt Adriano’s gaze upon me, intense and piercing. My heart began to race as I watched him fiddle with his shirt button, a silent struggle between his desire to contain his temper and perhaps the desire to strangle me for brazenly telling him I was about to wed another man.
Suddenly, he leaned in closer, too close, and I instinctively pulled back, but he was quick to trap me, our faces mere inches apart.
“That boyfriend of yours is a leech,” Adriano sneered, his voice dripping with venom. “Living off your money, using your resources to start his pathetic little business. He’s not a man, he’s a parasite, and he doesn’t deserve a woman like you.”
Shock coursed through my body as I froze in place. How could Adriano possibly know about the money I’d lent to Eden? It was
