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 real one?"

skeptical.

has a point," Valerian

really fit in, not in looks, not in personality.

different."

day one," Ulysses shook his head. "No

not after all these

muttered, seeing

was determined, she'd find proof one way

she's

just crossing the

bridge of

she's about to

everything we've

thinks we've never treated her right," Ulysses said

downcast.

is now, she doesn't need

has no reason

every right to walk away," he added, voice small.

just... frozen over."

to

now that

away for

rethink everything.

thought about

how wrong they'd

every moment he'd treated her badly.

they could never reach

never came back to them? What if she was

was only realizing all this now, when it might