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.

adopted,

realized her family was slipping away from her, their world beginning to revolve

older sister, you should let her have her way," they'd

but not wiser,"

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

every way, in studies and talents," they'd

They knew nothing.

in ways they never noticed. She had supported them more than they'd ever realize. But by the time she saw how much things had changed, it was too late.

dripping with fury. "Calliope, how can you

up her suitcase and looked up with a smirk. "You gave them away, so buy her new ones. These are mine, you have no right to give

her suitcase back to

space for a five-foot bed and a small desk. Lisette had an enormous walk-in closet, while Calliope