A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

"This isn't over between the Jewell family and her, not by a long shot! Not unless she coughs up everything that belonged to our grandpa, and everything that belongs to the Jewell family, too!"

Valerian shot to his feet, his face red with anger. "I'm calling a press conference. The whole world deserves to know what kind of disgusting, two-faced person Calliope really is!"

He didn't care to argue with Horatio anymore.

Monty nodded fiercely. "Damn right! We need to get back what's ours. What she did is no different from stealing!"

Lisette rolled her eyes, letting out a dramatic sigh. "Our dear sister really played us, huh? All this time she's been filthy rich, but she pretended to be broke and pitiful right in front of us!"

"We used to feel sorry for her, living out in the boonies, didn't we? She even blamed the rest of us for not doing enough for her, but did she ever need our help? She's got more assets than the rest of us put together. Hell, she's richer than the entire Jewell family."

"And yet she takes everything that's ours, and still puts on that poor-little-me act. Unbelievable."

Monty's fists clenched as Lisette spoke. "It's downright obscene! I can't believe we ever trusted her. She's way worse than I thought."

...

quickly brought down

her up and starting the "interrogation." She sat across from them, silent, listening

And

a shred of evidence? You can look into my grandfather's death all you want, and investigate whether I

was cold and unafraid, like she was staring right through her

them angrier. "You sure are brave, acting all calm after getting

got plenty of ways to make you talk. Plenty of ways to make you suffer. Is

Calliope shrugged. "Not really."

admit what you

I admit to something I didn't do?" Calliope replied, cool as ever. "If you were innocent,

right? Did she order you to frame me? To interrogate me? Hope you're not too attached to your badge because you might

words only made the man

...

Meanwhile, outside the station.