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?"

fake! And if she is... where's

skeptical.

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

in, not in looks, not in personality. She's always

different."

from day one," Ulysses shook his head.

her out, not after all

a theory," Lisette muttered, seeing

find proof one way

she's

just crossing the line,"

the bridge

not, she's about to make

everything we've worked

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

downcast.

she is now, she doesn't need

She has no

away,"

just... frozen over."

used to resent

anyone. But now

away for real,

but rethink

about it, the

how

every moment he'd treated

could never reach

she never came back to them? What if she was

was only realizing all this now, when it