A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

"Are you worried that if I have a baby with Gideon, you'll never have a shot again?"

"You say you don't love Gideon anymore, but I bet you're still hung up on him, aren't you?"

"There's no need to use such a lousy excuse just to hurt my baby. Babies are innocent, you know."

She looked like she was about to burst into tears, as if Calliope had somehow bullied her.

Calliope could barely believe what she was hearing. She honestly regretted even bringing it up. Even if those two had a kid with no brains at all, it wouldn't have anything to do with her.

"So what, you think I'm not as good as Gideon? That's why my wife still thinks about him, huh? Is it because Gideon's richer than me? Or maybe you think he's better-looking? Or is it his fancy job and his stupid reputation?"

No one had noticed Silas had followed them outside. Now he was standing right next to Calliope, looking at Gideon's whole family with an amused grin.

Gideon's family just stood there, completely dumbfounded.

"Love isn't something you can measure with looks or money," Gideon said, taking a deep breath.

"Then how do you measure it, exactly? Are you better at having kids? Or is it that even with a broken leg, you can still... perform, so now you're the big hero?"

Yvette. "You sure are proactive. His leg's busted, but you're still all over

firing off one line

now, Calista and Dahlia had come outside, and

to

you were after someone else, they were

everyone knows what you're up to. Don't even bother to

seriously, can't you and your family just

Do you really want the whole world to see this

Christmas for crying out loud, and

laying into

Dahlia added, "it's not just Aunt Callie who thinks there's something wrong with your pregnancy. I do too. It's not a curse, it's just us being honest. If you

looked Yvette dead in the

if both of us see a problem,

of your crap," Fleur snapped. "You

her stomach. "Ow, my stomach! It

are you okay?" Fleur panicked, grabbing her