When Love Breaks by Jack

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!

she was first arranged by the Myers to impersonate me two years ago, the initial DNA

boyfriend, who made thorough arrangements that

Bella’s gaze hardened, a cold light flickering through, “It seems she’s still as ruthless as

“Who?”

“Pearl.”

I were pregnant around the same

all alone back then, just wanting to quickly leave the hospital with you, to

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

she spoke

seemingly kind face towards me as a child sent shivers down my spine, “Then… what about

with my baby in her arms, and then the

time the baby was handed back to me, the locket

deep breath, “It’s my fault, I was too trusting. When I asked the nurse, she said it was lost in the chaos, and I believed her.” My mind unraveled

was another half I had to ask, “What… what’s your relationship with

could feel Pearl’s hatred

probably wouldn’t hesitate to kill

to be me marrying into

“But Victor cheated before the wedding, got together with her, and she

“And you…”

have agreed quite happily.”

pride. I wanted to make the affair public, but the Taylor family wouldn’t allow it.

matter what.”