A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 202 In the diner, Big Guy and the others were extremely grateful. They started to try on the gifts one by one. There was a shiny watch, a sleek helmet, and a dapper tie, each more expensive than the last. They were worth thousands if not tens of thousands, not the kind of stuff you'd expect to see in a cozy little diner like this.

While trying them on, they were showing them off to Calliope.

Calliope just smiled and told them how great they looked.

"Do you think this suits me, Calliope?" one of them asked, adjusting the watch on his wrist.

"Absolutely," she replied with a grin, her eyes sparkling with genuine delight.

Across the street, Horatio and his brothers stood silently, peering inside. They watched Calliope laugh and

joke, her face relaxed and joyful. It had been so long since they'd seen her smile like that.

time they got together, it was always about Lisette,

refuse to apologize, growing more distant with each confrontation. And now, she rarely smiled around them,

glimpse of the little girl who had first joined the Jewell family, who was shy but endearing. As the youngest and only daughter, her three brothers doted on her. They'd wanted to give her everything

was always competing with Lisette and causing trouble. Lisette was the picture of perfection- obedient, bright, and successful. On

fault. She deserved

plenty of chances. She didn't want

away and got into their car, driving off into

in the diner's courtyard, Calliope leaned against a stone table, deep in thought. She'd noticed Horatio's leg seemed weaker than before.

mind drifted back to the time

treatment. She'd known that. But he had never acknowledged her help, never appreciated it. He only trusted

how could she be blamed? With a light chuckle, Calliope shrugged off the

she'd promised