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!

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

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

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

“Who?”

“Pearl.”

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

wanting to quickly leave the hospital with you, to get away from the Taylor and

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

she spoke of was

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

the dead of night, a nurse suddenly started crying out with my baby in

handed back to me, the locket was

I asked the nurse, she said it was lost in the

there was another half I had to ask, “What…

could feel Pearl’s

she probably

supposed to be me

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

“And you…”

help but chuckle, “Must have agreed quite happily.” That’s just like

I wanted to make the affair public, but

matter what.”