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!

Myers to impersonate

boyfriend, who made thorough arrangements that uncovered the

light flickering through, "It seems

"Who?"

"Pearl."

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

quickly leave the hospital

I know, her child was stillborn. To marry into the Myers smoothly, she bribed the nurse to switch

spoke of

to Pearl's seemingly kind face towards me as a child sent shivers

nurse suddenly started crying out with my baby in her arms, and then the baby was whisked away for

handed back

When I asked the nurse, she said it was

I had to ask, "What... what's your relationship with

feel Pearl's

she could, she probably wouldn't hesitate

to be me marrying into the

wedding, got together with her, and she flaunted her pregnancy test in front of me, asking me to

"And you..."

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

I couldn't swallow my pride. I wanted to make the affair public, but the Taylor family wouldn't allow it. They insisted

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