A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 9

"Calliope, enough already! Are you raiding your sister's room or what? Look at this mess!"

Zelda stood in the doorway, clutching her chest as if she were about to have a heart attack. The once picture-perfect princess suite was now a whirlwind of chaos.

"Zelda, everything I'm taking is what Grandpa gave me himself!" Calliope shot back. "Stealing my stuff, hoarding my things- that's what you call raiding. I'm just reclaiming what's rightfully mine!"

She furiously packed a suitcase, tossing in items without hesitation.

Lisette's room was filled with precious things that belonged to Calliope, things her grandpa had left her before he passed. But time and time again, whenever Lisette took a liking to something, Zelda would swipe it away and hand it over to her.

Even this room had once been Calliope's.

She had returned to the Jewell family a full year before Lisette arrived. Back then, life was blissful. Zelda and Monty treated her kindly, and her three brothers adored her as their only sister. She had the largest room, the best of everything.

Lisette was adopted, and everything

it was subtle. But gradually, Calliope realized her family was slipping away from her, their world beginning to revolve around Lisette. They celebrated only Lisette's birthdays. Everything that had once been hers

sister, you should let her

older, but not wiser," they'd

"You're disobedient," they'd scold.

way, in studies and

They knew nothing.

time she saw how much things had changed, it was too late. No one would believe her. They'd just say,

gifts for Lisette!" Zelda snapped, her voice dripping with fury. "Calliope, how can you be

say they were gifts?" Calliope zipped up her suitcase and looked up with a smirk. "You gave

she dragged her suitcase back to

suite, Calliope's room was minuscule. Inside, there was barely enough space for a five-foot bed and a small desk. Lisette had an enormous walk-in closet, while Calliope made do