A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 14

Gideon answered the phone and stepped out.

In the private booth, as soon as Gideon sat down, his friends gave him these pitying looks.

"Gideon, man, we know this must be tough for you. But what can you do? I mean, he's your uncle, right? You just have to roll with it."

"Exactly, Gideon. Mr. Myers isn't someone we can mess with. We're all pissed on your behalf, but what can we do?"

"Yeah, man. Chin up!"

"Here, have a drink!"

"Besides, you weren't that into Calliope anyway, right? Now you can go after Yvette instead..."

"Sure, Yvette might not have Calliope's looks or whatever, but she's your true love!"

One after another, his friends kept throwing out words of comfort.

had only wanted to grab a bite to eat, paused, fork in hand. He stared at them,

are you guys

of it?" Laird reached over, feeling Gideon's forehead. "How could you be married to

it under

all about you, then boom, she's

you, Calliope was just using you to get

group started

fog, not getting

my uncle? Can you guys speak in a language I understand? There's no way Calliope's involved with my uncle. What nonsense are you spouting? Laird, if you keep this up,

exchanged

you seriously

wedding blew up on social

Gideon straight in the eye, utterly shocked. "You

with the riddles and tell me what's going

Gideon's frustration was mounting.

riddles, and the more they danced around the point, the more restless