I pinched the palm of my hand, tears flowing even more fiercely now.

Watching her shower Summer with such affection before, my heart was filled with envy. I wished that someday I too would find my birth mother, hoping she would love me just as Bella loved Summer.

And now...

Bella is actually my birth mother!

It felt like fate played a colossal joke on me, blessing me with a splendid origin only to curse me with a dreadful first half of life.

No wonder I enjoyed being around Bella so much. Designing dresses for her always sparked my creativity like nothing else.

It was a mother-daughter connection...

As my thoughts slowly untangled, I couldn't believe what I was about to say: "My locket went missing two years ago, but you announced you had a daughter last year. Could it be... Summer was the one with my locket..."

-Recognized kin!

"Pretty much."

Bella looked at me with compassion, gently brushing the hair stuck together by tear stains behind my ear, "However, there was always a doubt. After she appeared, I had DNA tests done, more than one actually."

"The DNA tests didn't show any problems?"

Bella shook her head, "No, there weren't any."

"This..."

This felt eerily familiar!

"When she was first arranged by the Myers to impersonate me two years ago, the

was Gregory, my current boyfriend, who made thorough arrangements that

light flickering through, "It

"Who?"

"Pearl."

the tears from her face, Bella said guiltily, "Back then, she and I were pregnant around the same time, but she

quickly leave the hospital with you, to get

was stillborn. To marry into the Myers smoothly, she bribed

she spoke

face towards me as a child sent shivers down my

with my baby in her arms, and then the baby was whisked away for

the time the baby was handed back to me,

trusting. When I asked the nurse, she

there was another half I had to ask, "What... what's

could feel Pearl's hatred

she probably wouldn't hesitate

cousin. Initially, it was supposed to be me marrying into the Myers

there was a hint of relief in her eyes, "But Victor cheated before the wedding, got together with her, and she flaunted her pregnancy test in

"And you..."

chuckle, "Must have agreed quite

the affair public, but the Taylor family wouldn't allow it. They insisted

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