A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 199 "What?" Horatio and the others turned their heads simultaneously toward Lisette.

Lisette's reaction was intense, looking like she knew something they didn't.

"I can't say!" Lisette blurted out, shaking her head vigorously at Horatio and the others, quickly sealing her lips shut.

"What do you know?" Zelda asked suspiciously. "Lisette, what did Calliope do? Spill it!"

"Yeah, Lisette, just tell us. If you don't, we're in the dark!" Valerian frowned with concern on his face.

Lisette shook her head. "I'd better not. It's just a hunch. Callie couldn't possibly be that kind of person. She wouldn't do such things!"

"What are you guessing at?" Ulysses asked, his brow furrowing even more. "You can tell us, Lisette. There's no outsiders here. Just say it."

After a moment of hesitation, Lisette finally spoke up cautiously, "It's really just a guess. I might be wrong. People might say that, but I think it's all rumors!"

of that. Just tell us,"

hanging out with many older

rumors at school too. They said Callie was being 'kept'

Our family isn't struggling for cash. She doesn't need

complicated expressions on their faces, she narrowed her eyes slightly. It seemed she might finally get Calliope out of the Jewell family picture.

back then, she had snapped a few photos

said. "Callie wouldn't be so reckless!

the kind of person who

the others

gave,

can't be like that.

be," Lisette insisted. "I took some photos back then. I can't believe Callie was really involved with

Let us see," Horatio said, his expression stern. Lisette obediently pulled out some photos of Calliope

each time. One was older and uglier than the next, and the youngest must have