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!

my thoughts, “When she was first arranged by the Myers to impersonate

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

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

“Who?”

“Pearl.”

were pregnant around the same time, but she had a premature birth, so we ended up delivering

hospital with you, to get away from the Taylor and the

into the Myers smoothly, she bribed the

Pearl she spoke of

child sent shivers down my spine, “Then… what about you at that

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

the baby was handed

I asked the nurse, she said it was lost in the chaos, and I believed her.” My

had to

could feel Pearl’s hatred

she could, she probably wouldn’t hesitate to

Initially, it was supposed to be me marrying

bitterly, yet there was a hint of relief in her eyes, “But Victor cheated before the wedding, got together

“And you…”

but chuckle, “Must have

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

matter what.”