A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Valerian was fuming. "Calliope is out of her mind, I swear."

"What's she even trying to do?" Ulysses asked, anxious. "Isn't she running the

company? Is she planning to quit? Just walk away and leave us hanging?"

Lisette glanced around at everyone, hesitating. "Honestly, I get the feeling... she's

kind of an impostor."

"Impostor?" The three brothers turned to her in unison.

"Yeah, like... pretending to be the real Callie," Lisette said. "Haven't you noticed?

She doesn't look a thing like Mom and Dad, or any of our brothers."

"All the brothers have at least a bit of Mom or Dad in them, but Callie? She's

completely different."

"I mean, sure, genetics are weird, but you can't get that different, can you?"

"What if she's not the real Callie?"

"Then it would make sense why she doesn't care about the Jewell family, or any

of us, wouldn't it?"

Lisette peeked up at her relatives, gauging their reactions.

"No way," Horatio frowned, arms crossed. "She grew up with Grandpa. We picked

her up from his place ourselves. Grandpa wouldn't just swap in a fake, would he?"

she is... where's the

skeptical.

has a point," Valerian admitted. "She's so harsh

fit in, not in looks,

different."

from day one," Ulysses shook his head. "No way he

not after all

just a theory," Lisette muttered, seeing how unconvinced everyone was.

determined, she'd find proof

what she's

just crossing the

bridge of

she's about to

we've

never treated

downcast.

looking at where she is now,

has no reason

right to walk away," he added, voice

just... frozen over."

used to resent

anyone. But now

for

but rethink

he thought about

realized how wrong they'd

regretted every moment he'd treated her badly.

they could never

back to them? What if she

this now, when it might already be too