A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 856

"No way—are you saying she scammed them out of a ton of money, but they never even spent a dime on her?"

"That can't be right. The Jewell family must all have been conned!"

A chorus of murmurs swept through the crowd.

Monty was starting to sweat. He looked nervously at Zelda and pressed, "Come

on, show them! Didn't you buy her clothes? Pay her tuition?"

Zelda's face was tight. "No, I didn't!"

With all those eyes on her, she didn't dare lie.

She had no proof.

"What?" Monty gaped. "Every year on her birthday, didn't you buy her something? You got presents for Lisette—weren't you supposed to do the same for her? And that tuition money-didn't I tell you to pay it?"

Zelda's expression soured even more. "I can't remember. I always forget these things!"

"And besides, whenever I was out getting clothes for Lisette, she'd be off somewhere. I don't remember ever getting her anything!"

Zelda huffed, clearly annoyed.

It's that you only ever cared about Lisette. You never even looked my way," came

you said I was an embarrassment and made me wait

walk out with bags and bags for Lisette—always forgetting about

if the real Calliope was here, she'd probably be crushed. You treated your adopted daughter

in the audience gasped, unable to hide

even know she wasn't their real daughter, and this is

their own, they only bought clothes for the adopted

so sad. I've seen favoritism,

breaks for the real

never even got to grow up-and her family

grief for losing their daughter-it

"How disgusting!"

"Poor Calliope!"

if Mrs. Jewell says she never gave Calliope any money, where's this

their money coming fr

belongs to s

her brothers gave

crowd all turned

looked sick. He hadn't given Calliope a

money, right? Show us the proof Monty

getting riled