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.

to the study for work. Even though they had signed an agreement, and she knew full well what it entailed, her nerves still got the better of

of man who commanded attention with both his looks and presence. But he was once

thought of being with him

waste. She thought she'd have to put in a ton of effort, but everything had gone

bedroom. It was Silas's

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

tired, she quickly

she felt the warmth of

too nervous to

I wake you?" Silas's voice was husky

be asleep. And Silas didn't call her bluff. He simply held her gently, whispering, "Go

happened that night. Calliope

when she opened her eyes the next morning,

was startled, her brain taking a

held a deep, intense emotion as he looked at