A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

"Silas, you've gone too far this time." Gideon's eyes were bloodshot as he glared at Silas, his anger boiling over. He didn't bother crawling forward anymore, nor did he attempt to stop Silas.

He knew Silas well enough to understand that when he made a threat, he meant it. Silas might really drug him and throw him to those people.

With no other options left, Gideon felt cornered into making a painful decision involving his mother.

Silas met Gideon's gaze, a smirk playing on his lips.

"You care about your mother, don't you?" he taunted. "Funny how when push comes to shove, you're willing to let her take the fall for you. Maybe you don't care about her as much as you pretend to."

"I'll give you a choice," Silas continued. "If you go in there and take her place, I'll let her go. Nothing will happen to her. So, what's it going to be? Are you going to choose?"

"Silas, you sick bastard!" Gideon spat, his voice shaking with rage. "You're a monster! How could you do this to my mother, to us? Have you forgotten all the kindness my grandfather showed you? How he helped you when you needed it? How can you be so heartless?"

what was happening. This kind of thing shouldn't

coldly. "Weren't those plans meant for my wife? I'm just returning the favor. You think it's okay to use such vile tactics against my wife, without her consent or mine? Now that the tables have turned, you don't like it very much, do you? I'm giving you a choice now, something you never gave

of despair. He couldn't argue against the truth of Silas's words; they

to your uncle, Gideon," Gabriel interjected, his voice

your uncle long enough

know better."

Calliope with the credit card he'd given her softened his stance slightly. At least Gabriel

daze, clothes disheveled and eyes vacant. Her gaze

like a woman possessed, she lunged at Calliope, but her

arm rendered her helpless.