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.

bite to eat, paused, fork in hand. He stared at them,

guys talking about? I'm married to

it?" Laird reached over, feeling Gideon's forehead. "How could you be married to Calliope... when she just married Silas? My

believe Calliope kept it under

all about you, then boom, she's with Silas at the altar! That's

was just using you to

group started buzzing

getting a word of what they were

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, I'm gonna get mad." Gideon said, feeling both

exchanged

you seriously don't

on social media, and

in the eye, utterly shocked. "You really

riddles and tell me what's

Gideon's frustration was mounting.

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