A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 24

Everyone knew that Eamon had promised Gideon a stake in the company if he married Calliope. But now that Calliope had backed out, those shares went up in smoke.

Of course, Verity was gleeful about the whole situation.

But Gideon's mother, Fleur, wasn't taking it so well. Her face soured the moment the news broke. She never really liked Calliope and certainly didn't want her marrying Gideon, but the five percent stake in the company was a sweet deal she couldn't ignore. Reluctantly, she had supported the marriage.

She never imagined that, just as the wedding bells were about to chime, the bride could simply change her mind.

Fleur was livid. At the wedding, she'd already confronted Eamon about it, but he just shrugged and said it was Gideon's choice to walk away. Nothing to be done about it now.

use. He insisted that since

given up on Calliope, then naturally, the shares are not his

could they give the shares to an outsider like Calliope? But Eamon

losing her appetite and unable to sleep. It

had even resigned herself to accepting Calliope as a daughter-in-law. And now, that woman had the nerve

of him,

voice dripping with irritation. "What, is my

a smirk. "I'm looking pretty good, actually. Certainly better than you, with all those wrinkles. You know, the more you frown, the more you look

dared to speak to her this way before,

that? Do you