Molly's POV "Gianni..." I began, but he cut me off, his words cutting through me like daggers. "Don't." This is how you let people walk all over you. The world isn't ruled by kindness," Gianni said coldly, and in that moment, I feared there was no hope left for him. The darkness seemed to have consumed the man who was once my world, and I couldn't help but wonder if it was that darkness that drove him to disappear without a trace. Get them out of my sight," he ordered, his anger directed solely at me. I had no regrets for intervening in whatever he had planned. Melody and the other attendants were forcefully removed from the shop, their pleas falling on deaf ears. "I think they're lucky," a shopper remarked, and I furrowed my brow in confusion. The attendants had jus

