A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

The stand-in had already unlocked the hotel room door. He knew Silas so well by now that he could copy his every move, right down to the way he walked and talked. It was almost creepy how perfect the imitation was.

Of course, no one in the livestream could actually see his face. All they saw was "Silas" walk into the room, and then, there was Yvette.

Yvette had clearly been waiting. She wore a slinky, barely-there dress, and the room was hazy with some kind of incense that made everything feel a little off.

"Uncle Silas! I knew you'd show up!" Yvette's voice was breathy with excitement the second she saw him.

"I bet it crushed you when you saw Calliope go visit Gideon, didn't it?" She sighed dramatically. "I'm heartbroken too. I know they're not over each other. That's why I wanted to meet you. There's nothing we can do, right? Two miserable souls. Let's just sit and have a drink together."

"Uncle Silas, come sit. I brought some wine."

She barely had anything on, and every move she made seemed carefully choreographed to show more skin. When she leaned over to pour a glass, the camera caught a generous view.

At that moment, the livestream chat totally blew up.

[Whoa, what am I watching? Is this for real? Wait, isn't that Gideon's wife, Yvette? And Uncle Silas, is that actually you?]

to clarify, that's not me, okay? That guy

to freak out. Auntie would lose her mind if

no one going to tag Gideon? His wife's about to cheat right

and his family like

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dropped the livestream link. Fleur clicked, probably

Yvette was

the sofa, calling

way too handsy. Meanwhile, the fake