A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 868

Her face was pale as a sheet.

"Let go of me!" she snapped.

"Calliope, what are your troublemaking friends trying to do here, break my hand?" Zelda shouted, glaring.

Calliope shot a look at Mavis. Mavis instantly released Zelda's arm.

Zelda, who had been yanking back with all her might, was completely caught off guard. She tumbled backward and landed flat on her butt.

"Ow! You did that on purpose!" Zelda sat on the floor, rubbing her behind, her face twisted in pain.

She turned her anger on Calliope, yelling, "You think this is funny?"

“Oh, give it a rest. Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough already?" Calliope said coolly.

Monty looked like he'd aged twenty years overnight. The stress from the company tanking, the family drama at home-he was at his breaking point.

Not only was the family business on the verge of bankruptcy, but they were drowning in debt. The constant calls from creditors demanding payment, especially those after Lisette, had the whole Jewell family in a panic.

struck. They'd

was

entire Jewell family was one big, messy

Ulysses was in the hospital,

Monty heard the news-and saw online that Ulysses had gotten hurt protecting Calliope-he rushed straight over. He wasn't here to make trouble for her.

many years of calling each other family, surely there was some bond

knew if Calliope helped them out, even just a

help, but Eamon had flatly refused and even scolded him. The

need to talk

Callie's fault," he added as Zelda huffed, got up, and stomped toward the

Calliope with a sheepish smile. "Callie, I know

were home. Eere

gone, you were just like our own daughter, you fitted that space, didn't

we...

come home? Your old room is just as you left it. I still

photo-kept it all

her, earnest

face was cold, her eyes hard as stone