Chapter 9

Penny's point-of-view I was already on a plane to Manova when Ethan and the others were causing all that trouble back in Havenridge. When I arrived, I saw my parents and Zack waiting outside the airport. But the moment I spotted Zack in the distance, my excited steps faltered. Although the six of us had grown up together, I had gradually drifted apart from him after all the rumors started spreading. My friends, especially Ethan, had convinced me to keep my distance. And after seeing the surveillance footage of Zack kissing a girl in a bar, I wanted even less to do with him. Because I had always resisted him, and since the Green family's business had been shifting abroad by the time he came of age, he was never considered as one of my potential fiances. But on the day I turned 18, after my birthday party, I returned home to find an engagement gift from him. It was because of this gift that, a couple of weeks ago, I had thought of him and decided to pursue an arranged marriage w