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 initial DNA

current boyfriend, who made thorough arrangements that

flickering

"Who?"

"Pearl."

the tears from her face, Bella said guiltily, "Back then, she and I were pregnant around the same time, but she had a premature birth, so we

to quickly leave the hospital with you, to get away

To marry into the

spoke

a child sent shivers down my spine, "Then... what about

with my baby in her arms, and

baby was handed back to me,

continued, taking a deep breath, "It's my fault, I was too trusting. When I asked the nurse, she

half I had to ask, "What...

could feel Pearl's hatred

she probably wouldn't hesitate

supposed to be me marrying into the

wedding, got together with her, and she flaunted her pregnancy test in front

"And you..."

but chuckle, "Must have agreed quite happily." That's just

make the affair public, but the Taylor family wouldn't

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