Lost Me Gained Regret

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!

I shared my thoughts, "When she was first arranged by the Myers to impersonate me two years ago, the initial DNA

was Gregory, my current boyfriend, who made

light flickering through, "It seems she's

"Who?"

"Pearl."

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 ended up delivering

leave the hospital with

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

Pearl she spoke of was

Pearl's seemingly kind face towards me as a child sent shivers down my spine, "Then... what about you at

crying out with my baby in her arms, and then the

was handed back to me, the locket

she said it was lost in the chaos, and I believed

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

feel Pearl's hatred

she probably wouldn't

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

Victor cheated before the wedding, got together with her, and she flaunted her pregnancy

"And you..."

"Must have agreed

wanted to make the affair public, but the Taylor family wouldn't allow it. They insisted on