A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

"Not bad, I guess," Julius muttered.

"We'll have to keep an eye on him," Norton chimed in, voices low and suspicious.

Quentin staggered to his feet, a crooked grin on his face. "Alright, come on, you and me-let's spar for a bit."

"Wait, you mean a fight?" Silas stood up too, eyes widening in surprise.

"I need to know you can protect Callie," Quentin said, suddenly sounding way too serious for how much he'd had to drink.

"Fine, bring it on," Silas replied, rolling his shoulders.

The two of them tromped out onto the lawn before Calliope could stop them. Within seconds, they were brawling like two college football players after too many beers.

Naturally, Calliope and Dahlia hurried out to watch, joined by Julius and Norton, who immediately started cheering for Quentin like this was the Super Bowl.

After a while, it dawned on the tipsy crowd that no one was rooting for Silas, and soon enough, Julius and Norton were arguing about whose side they should actually be on.

"Your brothers are a riot,” Uriah said, standing next to Calliope.

"They're just drunk," Calliope replied with a frown.

feet. And Silas is holding his own.

watched, biting

the more serious it got-punches landing harder, eyes narrowing. These two were really going at

escalate, Calliope realized nobody else was going to step in. So, without a second thought, she rushed

to grab her arm, but she was too quick. "They're both wild right

care. She dove

few wild moves later, both Silas and Quentin, caught up in the adrenaline, turned their attention to this unexpected

a few slick moves, she had both guys pinned

she declared, glaring at them. "I'm Callie. You're not

bruisers suddenly looking sheepish. Calliope waved Dahlia and a couple others

all that, Silas and Quentin were even more hammered, stumbling and slurring, barely able to

all four que

just to make sure no more brawling broke

Finally, peace and quiet.

a

was staring at her in awe. "You're

flatter me," Calliope replied, shooting him a

she asked, “Hey Uriah, you got a minute

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