Giovanni’s POV

After Gray had left for work, I felt something was wrong with me. I wanted to believe it was because I was emotionally drained from what happened last night.

It started with a strange heaviness in my body — like all my energy had drained overnight. My stomach felt unsettled, my head light, and I could barely keep anything down since morning. I told myself it was just stress. Maybe I hadn’t been eating properly, or maybe my body was reacting to all the tension ...