A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 16

He couldn't possibly like someone like Calliope, not a chance!

Calliope was... honestly, kind of a mess. She had no real skills, just latched onto him, doing housework- things a nanny would do.

His uncle wasn't blind. There was no way he'd fall for a woman like that. There had to be something else going on.

"But it's pretty late now. Who are you going to look for?"

"Do you even know where Calliope is? At Myers Manor? You can't just waltz in there, right?"

"Isn't your uncle the one who hates being disturbed at night?"

Gideon sat back down in his chair, his face pale as a ghost.

"This can't be true. There has to be more to this. I'm going to find out what."

"Gideon, maybe you should eat first. You must be starving..."

The Myers Manor.

Even though they had signed an agreement, and she knew full well what

of man who commanded attention with both his looks

with him still

endured tragedy once before, she had been given a second chance- a chance she refused to waste. She

It was Silas's room, his scent lingering on

of her past never truly letting go. But last night, for the first time, she had

bit tired,

the moment she

stiffened, too

you?" Silas's voice

her bluff. He simply held her gently,

night.

opened her eyes the next morning, she found Silas gazing

brain taking a moment to catch

eyes held a deep, intense emotion as he looked