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.

only wanted to grab a bite to eat, paused, fork in

earth are you guys talking about? I'm

reached over, feeling Gideon's forehead. "How could you

it under

boom, she's with Silas at the altar! That's some next-level

Calliope was just using you to get close to

group started

fog, not getting a

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

exchanged

seriously don't

wedding blew up on social media, and you... you know

looked Gideon straight in the eye, utterly

riddles and tell me

Gideon's frustration was mounting.

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