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!

I shared my thoughts, “When she was first arranged by the Myers to impersonate me two years ago, the initial DNA tests didn’t show

current boyfriend, who made thorough arrangements

flickering

“Who?”

“Pearl.”

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

wanting to quickly leave the hospital with you, to get

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

Pearl she spoke of

towards me as a child sent shivers down my spine, “Then… what about you at

night, a nurse suddenly started crying out with my baby in her arms,

time the baby was handed back to me, the

a deep breath, “It’s my fault, I was too trusting. When I asked the nurse, she said it

had to ask, “What… what’s your relationship with

could feel Pearl’s

could, she probably

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

was a hint of relief in her eyes, “But Victor cheated before the wedding, got together with her, and she flaunted her

“And you…”

but chuckle, “Must have agreed quite happily.”

Bella exhaled slowly, “But I couldn’t swallow my pride. I wanted to make the

matter what.”