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!"

judge of that. Just tell us,"

with many

said Callie was being 'kept' by these older men for money. They said she was

would she? Our family isn't struggling for cash. She doesn't need to do something like that! And those men are so gross!" Lisette glanced at Zelda and the others

she narrowed her eyes slightly. It seemed she might finally get Calliope out of the Jewell family picture. They all looked

confronted Calliope back then, she had snapped a

be a misunderstanding," Lisette said. "Callie wouldn't be so reckless! If word got out,

"She's the kind of person who would. So, that fortune teller called her a

and the others

she gave, all bought with filthy

can't be like

some photos back then. I can't believe Callie was really involved with those older men, can

photos? Let us see," Horatio said, his expression stern. Lisette

different luxury cars with a different older man each time. One was older and uglier than the next, and