A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 22

Archie's two older brothers were born to his father's wife, while he himself was the son of the third mistress.

The Yoder matriarch- a fierce and ruthless woman- tolerated her husband's affairs but drew the line when it came to anyone threatening her sons' inheritance.

And so, after giving birth to Archie, his mother was frequently persecuted by her. The relentless torment eventually took its toll, causing her to suffer severe mental distress and instability.

Without his mother's protection, Archie's place within the Yoder family was precarious. His survival to this point had been nothing short of a miracle. From a young age, he learned to conceal his talents, playing the fool and projecting an image of incompetence to avoid Mrs. Yoder's wrath.

Calliope had been so infatuated with Gideon in the past that she never really noticed Archie's plight.

there smiling, ready to help. Yet she had never realized just how dire his

past life that she learned the full extent of Archie's hardships. After taking control of the Yoder family,

Mrs. Yoder was scheming to force him into marrying into the Jansen family, trying to pair him with their rather eccentric and not-so-bright

nothing more than a

If only she had known sooner, perhaps his life

grandfather's place in the countryside, and

to catch frogs in the fields, fish in

time, he began to open up. As they grew older, their

with me? I'm carefree and happy as

worry, Archie just drifts around, lazing about

Archie with