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?"

if she is... where's the real one?" Monty added,

skeptical.

Valerian

in looks, not in personality. She's

different."

raised her from day one," Ulysses shook his head. "No

her out, not after all

theory," Lisette muttered, seeing how

she'd find proof one

she's doing

crossing the line,"

pinching the bridge

not, she's about to make

everything we've worked

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

downcast.

looking at where she is now,

She has no reason

walk away," he added, voice small. "Guess

just... frozen over."

used to resent

now

away for real,

but rethink

thought about

how wrong they'd

regretted every moment he'd treated

they could never reach

she never came back to them? What

that he was only realizing all this now, when it