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.

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

handsome, the kind of man who commanded attention with both his looks

of being with him

before, she had been given a second chance- a chance she refused to waste. She thought she'd have to

returned to the bedroom. It was Silas's room,

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

bit tired, she

had come to bed, but the moment she felt the

too

you?" Silas's voice

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

night.

eyes the next morning, she found Silas gazing

was startled, her brain taking a moment to catch

a deep, intense emotion as he looked at her so