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!

to impersonate me two years ago, the initial DNA tests didn’t

current boyfriend, who made thorough arrangements that uncovered the

gaze hardened, a cold light flickering through,

“Who?”

“Pearl.”

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

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

child was stillborn. To marry into the Myers

Pearl she spoke of was

a child sent shivers down my spine, “Then… what about

baby in her arms, and then the baby

time the baby was handed back to me, the

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

half I had to ask, “What…

could feel Pearl’s hatred towards

could, she probably wouldn’t hesitate

it was supposed to be me marrying

a hint of relief in her eyes, “But Victor cheated before the wedding, got together with her, and she flaunted her pregnancy test in front of me, asking

“And you…”

couldn’t help but chuckle, “Must have

wanted to make the affair public,

matter what.”