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?"

be a fake! And if she

skeptical.

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

never really fit in, not in looks, not in personality. She's always

different."

raised her from day one," Ulysses shook

not after all

just a theory," Lisette muttered, seeing how unconvinced

she'd find

what she's doing

crossing the

the bridge

about to

we've worked

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

downcast.

now, she

has no reason to

right to walk away," he

just... frozen over."

used to resent

But now

away for

but rethink

thought about

how

moment he'd treated her badly. Now,

they could never reach

never came back to them? What if she

was only realizing all this now, when it might already be too