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.

before Lance had him

you're her brother? She's a total badass. No offense, but you don't

be legends. And, you know... pretty easy on the

unfiltered. "Actually, you're way less

talking about are probably her honorary brothers. I'm

shrugged, clearly

elevator doors pinged open, and Lance strode out first, his leather boots echoing

almost had to jog to

wrong way," He called

You could've said something

could barely keep it together, but he knew Lance's reputation-definitely not someone to piss off. So he

led Lance

and Monty Jewell were both waiting with

in, both

his best ingratiating smile.

to be? Why do you sound like you're auditioning for a role as the

face twitched, but he

heard stories about Lance-a bit of

even though Lance

still treated him like