A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

The Next Day

Calliope headed into the office early. She took care of a few things-emails, a call from legal, the usual when suddenly, Lance appeared.

This time, he'd left the whole helicopter stunt behind and just rolled up in a sports car, with an entire convoy of flashy vehicles trailing behind him. Subtlety clearly wasn't in his vocabulary.

He strode straight into Jewell Group.

As luck would have it, he bumped into Valerian Jewell at reception. Valerian had definitely heard of Lance-how could he not, after the infamous helicopter landing on the company lawn last month?

Security was about to stop Lance at the entrance, but Valerian recognized him right away and figured he was here for Calliope. So, with a resigned sigh, Valerian led Lance inside.

They stepped into the elevator together, and Lance gave Valerian a once-over, eyebrows raised.

"You know Callie?" Lance asked.

"She's my sister," Valerian replied evenly.

Lance scratched at his ear, puzzled. "Your sister? Huh. Weird, I've never seen you around. Her brothers I've met are all... well, kind of a big deal."

He sized Valerian up, then suddenly lunged at him-just out of nowhere.

have time to react before Lance

frowning. "You sure you're her brother? She's a total badass. No

legends. And, you know... pretty easy on the eyes. I

unfiltered. "Actually, you're way less good-looking than

to explode. "Those 'brothers' you're talking about are probably her honorary brothers. I'm

just shrugged,

strode out first,

almost had to jog to keep

wrong way," He called

something sooner! Geez, you really are

together, but he knew Lance's

Lance

Horatio Jewell and Monty Jewell

in, both men glanced

on his best

to be?

face twitched, but

heard stories about Lance-a bit of a

even though Lance himself didn't have much of

treated him