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.

had signed an agreement, and she knew full well what it entailed, her nerves still got the better of her now that the moment was

attention with

of being with him still felt

endured tragedy once before, she had been given a second chance- a chance she refused to waste. She thought she'd have to put in a ton

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

the shadows of her past never truly letting go. But last

tired, she quickly

she felt the warmth of his hands wrap around her, awareness slammed into

too nervous to

you?" Silas's

asleep. And Silas didn't call her bluff. He

night. Calliope slept

the next morning, she

brain taking a moment to catch

intense emotion as he looked at her so